I'm about a year behind

on starting this blog.

So, from the beginning:

We Bought It (in Feb of 2011):

Why? I knew better, but so much of it made sense.

I know, I know, No Old Log Cabins!




A bit of charm: (FSVO 'charm')



The cold hard reality of course, was a touch different:



But I knew that, the reality of old log cabins.

What the "brochure" said:



But peel back a layer or two of veneer, and what you have is:



And



But again, I knew this.

I knew it, in part because, of all the work the prior owners did, they
NEVER bothered with gutters. So, all the water, for all the years,
and all the snow, and so forth, went right into the foundation and
base walls of the 180-or-so-year old place.

Why we peeled the veneer back in the first place.

sigh

So, , Why?

Well, for one thing:



Two cabin cribs, some addition work, something of a tabula-rasa as a 'backyard' which has some decent W-WSW-SW exposure.



And a deep woodlot. Some woods. Classic mid-atlantic hardwoods. Cherry, Sugar Maple some hickory, and other fun stuff. About, in rough numbers, half woods, half open space, comprising about 1.3 acres all in all. A pretty much PERFECT place to attempt a micro-farm. A place to demonstrate some of our completely whacky ideas of small scale permaculture.

All about 15 to 30 minutes BY BICYCLE too all the services one could want, while at the same time, being 'in the sticks'.

So, we bought it, and started tearing it apart to find all the sins.

So, this,


Becomes this;



(the left hand side of the kitchen counter)

and this;



becomes this;



before becoming this;



And all this;



into this;



and finally,

into this:




And that pic at the top, into this:

(de-molded, gutters cleaned first time in YEARS, etc etc etc)



The moss growing on these roofs was inches thick in places.

anyway, This quick entry no where near catches up on what's going on at
Cold Comfort (micro) Farm, but it's a start.

more to follow.

promise.

--me