Fall is definitely here, mornings are very cold in the 30's and 40's. Usually, Kevin has a nice fire going in the morning when I wake up. This morning he is working and decided it wasn't cold enough to start a fire. It's going to be 54 degrees today, so with warm clothes and doing some chores around here, it will be warm enough.
Kevin's Amish building is here, and a great help in organizing the house. He chose it unfinished inside, so it is 380 square feet of storage. The attachments for the tractor are stored in there as well as Kevin's books and some of his hobby stuff. It still has plenty of room for his tools. The building has a wide door for the tractor, and two smaller doors for the future radio room and the workshop. It has a small window and a skylight too. The walls are pine and the floor hickory. It was a good purchase and with time, we will be able to clear out the two small out buildings, making a pig pen and a chicken coop.
Yesterday, I painted the outside door going into the side yard, and also the front door. Adam painted the trim above and around the front door. The paint is a heritage green. It is about the color of pea soup, not really pretty right now with the white house. We will be painting the house a light yellow next Spring, so hopefully it looks better with the yellow, if not I will choose a different door color. The previous doors were black and were pretty dried out from the heat built up with the storm doors. The doors are probably original at least the front door with it's brass fixtures complete with old locks. I am going to clean the brass in the Spring and try to locate keys to fit the door.
The living room and kitchen are papered now, I am trying to come up with a display of family pictures, but that is not my strong point. I need to print out some pictures that my Uncle Robert sent to me of my great grandparents. It will come together with time. I saved the two old boards from the original front trim, I will repurpose these as sign boards for the walls, I will print lettering on them and will hang them around the house. Most of my craft things are unpacked, I plan to work on the craft room a little today. It was fun unpacking all of my boxes, looking again at all the old buttons and fabricthat have been packed away for so long. I found all of my scissors, many that I replaced when I couldn't find the old ones, so now I have several pairs.
The leaves are coming down, the colors are still pretty but not as brilliant as they were a couple of weeks ago. Some of the leaves have made their way into the mulch bin, making some good organic material for the garden next Spring. We have defined the area where the garden will be, the Fall/Winter seed catalogs are here and we will spend time in a couple of months going through them while we plan out our garden plots. We have plenty of gardening books to give us advice on how to set things up.
Thomas and Rose were out the end of September for a couple of days. It was nice to finally meet Rose and to see Thomas again. We went to Amish country, Kevin took them out shooting, and we did some things around the house, tractor rides, and a bonfire.
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