It's Been Almost a Month

When I look back at the old posts, I realize how much progress we have made! The drapes for the living room are being made, final electrical inspection is due in a week or so, so we are down to the tiny details that make a house a home.

We feel so blessed to have Laughing Fox. It truly feels like home and where we are meant to be. We are stewards of this property, here for just a while and leaving it better than we found it, and hopefully that will be a long while from now!

We are planning on having family and friends over for Thanksgiving, so it will be a real country "over the river and through the woods" holiday celebration. It was Michael's idea to have Thanksgiving here, and it is a good one!! I know that having an artificial center piece for the dining table is not the best choice, but I had one done by Liz Blalock at The Tulip Tree in Nashville and here is it's picture, complete with the turkey that will survive the holidays for more to come:)

Here are some fun pictures: Andy removing a boat-load of stick tights (see the collection on the floor?) from Gracie our intrepid hunter...she should have been named Diana or Artemis. Here is the turkey center piece and the pine boughs that Andy brought in this morning. They make the kitchen smell soooo good!!!

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.