Raining...STILL!!!

Everything here is wet, everything squishes, I think I'm molding, but Andy and his beloved Emma found the best use for another rainy day and spent the morning on the front porch. I got this shot through the screen door. Gracie, our foundling chose to stay inside and sleep on her pilow. Duchess, the Foxhound is hiding in the smoke house:)

Decorative Tile in the Guest Bath

I hope this image shows clearly. I found a company on E-bay that makes decorative tile and she had images of ladies and gentlemen fox hunting...well, I couldn't resist, so Luther Bolden, our tile guy put them in. They look really nicely with the Laughing Fox logo on the door done by Class Glass in Nashville and the hunting scene wallpaper that Andy (yes, Andy) choose. I bought five sets, but should have bought six, one to go over the shower head, but had to make my best guess.

Andy Makes Closets Useable

Andy installed shelving in the hall, guest bath, and washer and dryer closets. He did a great job! Our washer and dryer barely fit into the closet (it will be awful when we have to get new ones), but that's just part of fitting into an old house. I got the doors at a salvage yard our builder, Chris told us about in Nashville called Haley's Salvage. Andy said they look like they should open into a saloon...well, who knows? someday maybe:)

Thanks, Andy, you're the best!!!!

View Outside the Kitchen

Taken through the screens, but you get the idea...pretty nice, huh?

We Have a Refirgerator!!!!

Because I refused to go into the cellar after I found a very much alive but now not alive rat!!! poor Andy had to go down there to the ancillary refrigerator to get food that would not fit in the dorm size 'frig that we had to use until the real one came. It came last night!!! We're so happy, especially Andy, no more trips to Rat City, Rat Cellar, Rat's Nest (by the way no more have taken up residence...I need a snake!)But the real story is WE HAVE A REFRIGERATOR!!!!

The Sideboard and Dining Room Drapes

10 years ago when we bought the farm and the home on it, in the cellar there was a very worn out period sideboard. We had Randall Grace in Nashville restore and preserve the piece and it took him a year. It has been at our real home ever since until Andy and I moved it back to its original home here at Laughing Fox. Here is the photo of it and our first set of drapes!!! They're in the Dining Room.

We're Here!...sort of

I have been living at Laughing Fox for two weeks now, Andy is going back and forth to Averill, so life is hectic! There is so much to do, that how anyone could possibly get bored on a farm is beyond me. I have made new friends here and we have been to one party at our neighbors, the Cains and I have been to a girl's night out party already at our neighbours, The Heglers...I'm gonna love it here!

For you restorationists, if you have any questions about the process, please let me know.

For you equine people, if you want to know how life is taking care of your own equines, please ask and I will respond...so far, so good! Molly and Nancy are loving it here, too!

For you canine people, Duchess the Fox Hound, Gracie, our Who Knows What, and Emma our Queen, the Golden Retriever are in heaven. Lots of room to play, sleep, roam, torture the mares (we're working on discipline there), they are doing great!!

I will post more photos when I have the time to take them. That will hopefully be soon, but in the meantime,here are some moving in pictures...thank goodness for family!

Andy and I moved that very heavy period sideboard from Averill to the truck by ourselves. That is the sideboard that I found in this house's basement and had it restored by Randall Grace in Nashville about nine years ago. It has come back home and has pride of place in the dining room. The Nashville Tennessean did a story on it at the time. What a lovely piece of furniture.