A little bit of history to unfold

I met one of our neighbors today while we were out at the farm. She pulled into our driveway when she saw my daughter and I out walking around the front yard. She introduced herself as Pam and said that her mother-in-law was born in our house in the kitchen, on the kitchen table! And she grew up there. It was very exciting news! She was very interested to meet us and to eventually introduce us to her mother-in-law so that we could hear the whole history of our house. I explained to her that we would be restoring the house all summer long and that they were welcome to stop by anytime. She was quite sweet and friendly and said that if we needed anything that she lived in the red house just up the road from ours. I couldn't wait to run and tell Roger that I had just met one of our neighbors who knows the whole story of our farm. He was just as thrilled as I was. Our little white 1800's house has such wonderful karma, and now I think I know why. I look forward to meeting the woman who was born there and hearing the story of her life and of the house that we now call our second home.

Bluebird sighting!

Roger and I saw our first Bluebirds in person Sunday at the farm. It was so cool. We saw the male and the female and they are as beautiful in person as they look in pictures. I am sure there will be many other varieties of birds out there that we never see here. I can't wait to build some bluebird houses and put up lots of feeders.

How you know you are really "in the country".

We were out at the farm today, and we saw a groundhog that was hit by a car in front of the house. Our kids were upset because it was still alive, and was still in the road. So I told my husband that he had to go move it onto the side of the road. We both went out with the shovel and he scooped it up and put it on the grass. He wanted to put the little guy out of his misery, but I thought that maybe he would survive since there wasn't any blood, and he was moving a lot. So, we decided to leave him there. But as we walked back to the house, an older couple stopped their car next to my husband and rolled down their window to talk to him. When he came inside I asked him what they wanted. He said that they asked if it was our cat that was hit, and when he said it was a just groundhog, the old man said, "well, you know you can eat those?".
That's when it hit me, we were definately in the country!

First purchases

I found an amazing vintage sofa on Craigslist on Monday. What a wonderful resource! You can pretty much find whatever you are looking for, just need to be persistant. The sofa is 90"long,and so well made. They just don't build sofa's like that these days. It has a gorgeous red velvet brocade fabric on it in near pristine condition. The whole frame is carved walnut and it is extremely heavy. It will undoubtably be the centerpiece of our living area. And I only paid $200 for it! What a bargain!!! I also found a wonderful, mint condition vintage stove for free, and we picked up the boiler that we found for an amazing price. Two weeks ago I bought a vintage brass bed, which is painted white, for our daughters room at a resale shop in Waterford, and a wonderful vintage tobbogan that I will use as a christmas decoration on the front porch next winter.
It is so much fun treasure hunting for all the things I need to furnish our little farmhouse. There is nothing that I enjoy more! Hopefully we will start scraping and prepping the wall for paint this weekend. So much work ahead, but so much fun!