As parents, we make choices for our kids when they are very young with — we hope, we believe — their best interests at heart. I made a decision for Laura shortly after her birth that she rec...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/a-rare-home-schooling-post-ap-government-citizenship/
According to WordPress, I’m at 97 percent capacity here, which means that even with my lacklustre blogging in the past few years, I’ll be outgrowing my blog home before too long. I can’t s...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/moving-the-blog/
This post is mostly a reminder to myself, and hopefully assistance to anyone else looking for the mechanism to convert a regular exterior/outdoor light fixture to a motion sensing fixture. Rona c...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/motion-sensor-addition/
All the permanent staircases are in now in the house. No more temporary stairs, or ladders, or scaffolding! Here’s the main floor staircase, Calving continues but we’re on the downhill slide,...
All the framing, inside and outside, is done. The permanent stairs are done for the basement, in the house and from the garage. The permanent staircase from the main floor to the second floor wil...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/spring-progress/
The roof trusses are up on apartment, and work has begun on the deck. When the deck is completed, then the stairs to get to the apartment can go in. We escaped last month for most of a week to th...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/deck-for-the-apartmentsuite/
To keep the same roofline as the main house, Tom and crew extended the chord of the garage trusses; this also means adding a post and beam underneath to carry the extended chords. Speaking of b...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/extending-the-trusses/
The weather warmed up for Christmas and the crew had some good, productive days in in between holidays. The workshop, at the end of the garage and underneath the granny suite; some of the windows...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/workshop-and-apartmentsuite-progress/
Belated greetings of the seasons, and wishes for a happy and healthy new year, from our house to yours. Perversely, Christmas vacation has meant even more time to work on the house. The photo abo...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/happy-new-year-2/
Tom and crew took a break from our house building project in September to work for paying clients. They finished up two weeks ago and came back here to start working on the garage. They’d been...
https://farmschool.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/garage-progress/