This is our bedroom, it is the only downstairs bedroom
Here is the view from the base of our stairways towards the big room. It has four "sections", with a beam in the center (the one Jason climbs). here is our dining room table in one "section", and behind, two sections make up our "living room".
This is where I spend half my life (it feels like anyway, lol!)
Here is our circle drive...it has a garden in the middle of the circle, that is fenced in (both with wire and wood). It looks all overgrown here, but we have spent the past two days now weeding it out, and I have let the kids AND children in there to eat/pull weeds ;)
These are our water barrels. We fill these with a hose, from the well (which we manually turn on with a breaker). They fill up, and provide us with water for every use except drinking...Baths, dishwashing, watering indoor plants, washing messing children, water fights, and watering animals.
Here is the beautiful house! It sure is a sight, eh?
Here is my laundry line. I think there are 6 or 7 lines to hang on.
Behind it, down the hill, is our huge chicken coop.
This is my laundry room! Its out in the barn, behind our house. I fill one barrel with water, and then fill the washer with water. I add the laundry and soap, then go outside to turn the generator on. The draining hose goes into the empty barrel.
When washing is done, the wash water fills the empty barrel, and then I bucket in the clean rinse water from the full barrel, for the rinse cycle, and I then switch the drain hose to the rinse water barrel. When rinsing is done, it drains back into the rinse barrel!
I can do two loads of laundry with the same water, as long as I do a light colored load first. Diapers I usually do on another day, and it is much more simple as I use half the amount of water (such a small load), and half the wash water is hot water from the pots on the stove.
If I NEED to do three loads of laundry, I then make sure the wash water drains onto the floor and down the drain, and start filling it up with fresh "rinse" water, and bucket in our OLD rinse water to use for WASH water (adding more detergent of course).
CRAZY. I know.
Here's our kitties! Tyler's is named "Tar-Tar", the one behind. He is a little more petite. The front one, (with the round black spot on his side), is Jason's, and is named "Lee-Lye".
Incase anyone is wondering, we had NOTHING to do with these weird names, and there is no good reason for them. They just picked them. We don't even know if they are boys or girls yet, as they are SO tiny.
Here's our youngest calf. I always call him Browny, but as he is a meat steer, Jonny says I can't officially name him because he won't be around for too long ;)
The other two are out to pasture, so I didn't get a picture of them, Sorry.
Here are our only two surviving chicks from when two of the hens were setting. I am happy all my work at least amounted to SOMETHING :) They are doing great still! Hopefully they'll both be hens, or I'll just laugh my head off!
Here's our kids! These are my girls. The older one is Raspberry, and the younger one is Chai. Hopefully they will both be able to be bred this fall, and kid themselves next year!
This is Jason's job! He fills this wagon with wood after Jon chops/saws it all, and brings it to the front porch to load in my wood box for the stove. He does it without us asking, most of the time. We just notice him missing inside, and look out the window to find him loading up the wood! He is a farmer at heart. The other day he got ambitious, and after finishing up the wood, he went out and took down my laundry from the line.
I guess he had heard me earlier mentioning it was on my "to do" list. It was SO cute to see him jumping up to reach the diapers :)
