My Yellow Farmhouse

Deadlines are ALWAYS Good - Right?

Well at least that's how I roll.  Nothing gets my butt moving faster than the thought of someone coming through my door.  Mr. Contractor would like to show our house to some potential clients on Wednesday afternoon and we of course want to help me out.  Besides the fact that we love our house, we are so happy with him and want others to know and share what a great job he does.  Soooo that my sweet bloggets means this chick has to kick her rear end into high gear and get-r-dun, lol. 

Soooo what the heck has this chick been doing you ask, - hmmmm not exactly sure but I know I've been busy.  I will say that I had MAJOR phone and internet issues late last week.  They FINALLY and I mean FINALLY replaced something, a modem or something like that - wow what a concept.  Maybe that should have been done about 6 repair calls ago - I'm just sayin.  I was told that for them to come out on Friday because it was a holiday day off for them might cost me something if the problem turned out to be my fault.  I told them come on down because I'm pretty sure it's not my problem or has ever been my problem after uptean (is that a word) calls and visits - sheeesh I was ticked off.  Well so far so good and I think you've heard that one before.  Please keep your fingers crossed that the problem has been solved. Oh and did I say it wasn't my problemo - so no payo on my part.

 The kids came home on Thursday night and our fun weekend of great sun and absolutely perfect summertime weather all weekend long got started.  So between the internet/phone issues and company I never got back to posting on Friday.  Boy there's lots I have to share and say and I'm going to give it the good old college try and get caught up this week.  I'm really going to try and be a gal of my word and post a few times this week.

I've had lots of emails regarding the colors in my house.  After answering a few of them I decided that I would just post the colors on the blog with a pic of the rooms that have those colors and a color swatch card with the names.  I finally found the tag boards that I painted with the colors.   That will be one post this week.  The other post will be the Prims of the Midwest trip I took a week ago.  There's enough eye candy for that one on it's own.  I will say that I never took any pics during class - what's with that.  But lots of pics of our trip going there and a couple of my traveling woolies in class.

So I didn't want to leave you in a lurch so I'd thought I'd better post something soon.

The first person to leave a response on the correct name is Mary Burns/no blog.  Sweet Wendy sent me a darling email with the correct name, so I'm going to send something off to you both for correctly guessing.  What's that you say, what's the new name - well it's My Red Farmhouse.  I love calling the Mister - Mr. Farmhouse (thank you Kathy/No Blog for the name for the Mister) and since it's just a slight change from My Yellow Farmhouse I just think it's a better fit.  I'm waiting anxiously for Amber to change it over.  So Mary Burns please send me your snail mail.  Ms Wendy I already have yours :).

Things are winding down here at the Farmhouse as far as projects for the worker guys.  My pergola will be finished today

then there was a little excitement here yesterday because of some water issues in the mechanical room - but it's all taken care of now.

On the decorating front I've ordered some cute quilts for the beds that should be here next week so I can finally start in those rooms.  I feel like things are really starting to click now - finally.  I've been so distracted for so long that I was really starting to think I was losing my Mojo of all kinds. I feel like I've been missing in action both in blogland and with my friends and peeps.  Kamp Karen starts here a week from Saturday and it will be so relaxing to sit, sew and enjoy friendship.  We plan on heading to Bemidji next Friday for a day road trip to a fun quilt shop.  Little Silver will be coming along and getting out of my purse, lol.

I've been waiting for Ms. Faye to post pics from our woolie get together but she hasn't done that yet.  So I'll post a couple of pics.  Our hostess has a daughter getting married in 2 weeks.  She made 17 quilts, yes you read that right 17 quilts for the bridal party and gave us a little show and tell.  First off the brides quilt - this is a Quilt Soup pattern as well as fabric - ADORABLE

Here are a few of the bridesmaids and groomsmens quilts.  Not sure what the maids patterns are, but the men's quilts I believe are a Whimsicals pattern - sorry JM I know this first picture wasn't the best, but dang this quilt is to pretty not to share - I'm just sayin

I love those guy quilts - just perfect and pretty easy to whip up I'm thinking.

Loved this pic from the past weekend of Mr. Farmhouse and our granddog Dakota just enjoying the day

My sweet DIL and my other granddog Bell enjoyed some time together floating

There were lots of boats all decorated out for the 4th of July parade around the lake - couldn't get them all in one shot - so much fun to see
 

   

Well that's about it for me.  I love that you stop by and leave fun fun comments.  I'm going to just say THANK YOU so much for now.  I was going to answer you all, but hey I got a house to organize before tomorrow afternoon lol.  Right now you would probably all be crying "my eyes, my eyes" the way it is looking at this point.  But when it's all done tomorrow - well at least picked up, I'm taking pics to share.

Until Next Time

I just had to respond here.  I just reread my post and I'm ALL OVER THE PLACE SISTERS - and decided to leave it as is - gives you an idea what my poor brain has been going through, lol

Yup I'm Finally Here

First off thanks for stopping over and giving Ms. Faye a warm welcome.  She has an amazing gift for writing and the woolies always look forward to her emails and updates - she's just a plain hoot and we all just love her - ya Faye we do.  Thursday is our monthly wooly get together - hmmmm who will post first, lol.

Soooo where have I been you ask - to take such a long blogging break.  Do I really have a good excuse this time - well yes I do, pretty good I think.  First off Mr. Farmhouse (oh ya I'm changing my blog name again - can you guess what it's going to, maybe another little giveaway here to the first one to guess it correctly) and I headed to Lake of the Woods with Kari and Mr. New Leaf Stitches

for our annual fishing trip.  It's such beautiful country up there and even for me who's not a big fisher (I'm pretty sure that's not a word) person, I truly enjoy the company and the beautiful scenery plus Mr. Farmhouse and Mr. New Leaf Stitches

LOVE LOVE LOVE it up there.  So while I did fish and caught a few I might add, one that even made the dinner plate one evening - I also spent my time doing this

That Circle a Word Find a Word book kept me entertained when I wasn't fishing. Kari and I even had races to see who could finish first, this book was a big hit, well at least with me, lol.  Can you see the name on the left side of that word game "Blizzard".  The weather was far from winter let me tell you - it was about as perfect as you can get up there. 

Hope Kari doesn't kill me for this one - but we picked these up in Houston last fall at Quilt Market and saved them for the fishing trip

Sorry Kari - don't hate me, but I think there a hoot and just had to share.  I'm pretty sure I'll pay for posting this pic - I'm just sayin

Every evening while we watched the other fisher people come in for the night

we sat on the deck and enjoyed a "happy snappy" to celebrate the catches of the day

Pretty soon it was time for Kari and I to come home

while the guys stayed up a fished a few more days.  Another perfect trip full of laughs and good times.  What goes on at fish camp stays at fish camp - I'm just sayin :)

So Tuesday morning I drove all the way to North Dakota - which is really only about 45 minutes from me, but it sounds far doesn't it when I say it that way - sorry I digress once again, boy I do that a lot, ok back to the story -  to pick up a couple of woolies so that we could head down the road a piece to Primitives of the Midwest retreat in Missouri that Quilters Station in Lee's Summit puts on. Ms. Faye was to come along and be my roomie, but was unable to come at the last minute and we sure missed her.  She had to make a tough decision on whether to go or not and she did the right thing by staying home and boy think of the money she saved, lol. Oh my the things we saw while driving there and while we were at the retreat - the wool- oh lawdy mercy me the wool  - the fabric, the kits, the samples of quilty loveliness, so much wonderful eye candy.  Ok I hate to tease but I will save that for my next post.  I need to get my address and links figured out before I share the pics.  I do promise to report back this week before the holiday weekend - I really do promise and I'll show you ALL the beautiful wools I picked up for the website.  But here's a little snippet of a place we ate lunch at, have you ever seen such a cute salad bar - look at that cute quilt in the goat cart and that black cupboard is prim goodness - who'd of thought - prim and salad bar could go together, but it does

Thank you everyone for letting me know your feelings on adding floss to a kit.  I would say the majority of you would like it to be included.  Most of you felt the way I do and that it's nice to have it all together and not have to run out for a skein or 2 of a color you don't have.  I will probably offer it both ways for those who don't want it.  Also my kits will contain full skeins of the floss.  It would be to time consuming to keep track of what you need for a kit, cut skeins up and then mark them with the color number.  Since the cost of floss isn't to bad it just makes sense to include full skeins.  So for the winner I picked #30 who is Cindy since today is the 30th of June.  So Cindy-no blog please email me and let me know your address so I can get a little something something in the mail for ya.

It's been busy around the Farmhouse so far this week - look at the changes that have taken place outside

15 evergreens were placed around the property (see crazy Jake in the cab being goofy for the camera) and then a semi full of sod arrived this morning

and the guys got right to work - there's Josh flexing his muscles for the camera

and then this afternoon - BOOM

instant lawn - well maybe not instant for the guys laying it down lol, but I did feed them and kept them happy.  The fire pit is just about done - just needs some cap block around the top and the red chairs around it - pretty sure it will see some activity this weekend
 

it's amazing how some green grass can make such a difference - makes me want to do the "Fred Flintstone" all around the fresh grass - NO MORE DIRT

AHHHHHH - HOME

Until Next Time

OH YOU MUST - JUST MUST

Stop in and say hi to my dear sweet friend Faye who has decided to jump into the world of blogging.  You might remember she did a guest blog posting awhile back and was a hit.  She's a sweetheart with a gift for writing - (no pressure Faye, lol) and a great sense of humor, plus a very creative soul - WOW talk about pressure, lol. Anyway stop in and welcome her by saying hi.

I'll be back tomorrow with a picture heavy post of a road trip. Oh ya I'm talking WOOL HEAVEN sisters, lol

Until Next Time

Ahhh the Lake Life

Sunday was the perfect day for lake living .  Warm - yes I did say warm, finally, no wind and lots of sun.  We spent a good chunk of the day outside enjoying the beautiful day.  Even the geese families where out enjoying the calm lake - aren't they sweet just chugging along, the babies are getting so big

we took off for a "funtoon" ride to end our day - with a cold snappy summer drink and a slow cruise around - perfect

and someone was shot from her big day out and about

she could have cared less about her surroundings on the lake, she just wanted a soft place to land and some serious shut eye.
Came back and ended our day here on the patio, enjoying the boats on the lake getting settled in for their night fishing.  There were 8 boats out in front of us, but you can't see that many.  We are lucky and that our end of the lake tends to be pretty quiet most of the time, 8 boats is alot.   Must have been great fishing because they pretty much stayed there until dark

Been working on this cabinet a bit here and there

It's not done by any means, but at least there's somewhat of a plan and it's a start and right now that's a lot lol.

One of my favorite little pieces is this little blue drawer box - bought on ebay from circa1892
Not sure if that link will work, but Margo has some wonderful stuff and I'm pretty sure she's a favorite out there of some.  I've bought several things from her and have never been disappointed, but this piece is my favorite and for now it sits on the kitchen counter

The pantry door glass is finally done

please excuse the finger prints, it was just put in. It originally had 3 stars and I decided I really wanted 5 so the glass was removed and a new piece made - long story short I had the opportunity to make the change before the whole thing was finished, I'll spare you the details, lol.  The door will be taken out one more time to be repainted due to a nail issue when the glass was put in the first time.  Love how it turned out.  Boy getting this picture was hard, no matter where I stood there was bad light popping off of the glass - this was the best I could get right now.

Since moving I'm much closer to a great quilt store in another town - not sure that's a good thing.  Anyway I went the other day to pick up some neutral fabrics and saw this great patriotic line from Marcus Brothers - I think it's called Americana Patriotic or something like that.  It's wonderful yummy rich colors, don't ya love it PH :)

I wouldn't let myself buy it until I had a plan, so I came home and came up with a plan and made a trip back there yesterday. This will be used in some fun seasonal wall hanging kits with a flag background and then there's wool applique pieces on the front for each season.

I have been stitching a little bit, getting ready to kit some of these as well and the peeps are hard at work helping me get more samples done.
 

Picked up a cool pop box the other day at my favorite antique store

the red is a perfect color for the farmhouse, but I'm unsure what to do with it - any ideas out there?  I also picked up those greens inside the box as well.  I circled that dang box for quite awhile before I bought it.  Without a plan for something I'm trying hard not to buy anything, but the red was perfect and for some reason I'm a sucker for boxes.

Well I think that's about it for now.  Here's a question for you stitchers out there regarding floss, when you buy a stitchery and the background fabric is included would you like the floss included in the kit or would you rather use your own.  I know we all have lots of floss, but I swear every time I'm going to start a project I'm always short a few skeins of something and have to go into town to buy it.  So would you rather use your own or have everything you need in the pattern besides a needle so you could stitch as soon as you get home.  Leave me a comment regarding this and I will put your name in a drawing for something - not sure what yet, but something.

The upcoming week is going to be a busy one, so I probably won't be back until later next week - but I promise a fun fun fun post when I return and a name of a winner.

Until Next Time

Well Hey There

Thought it was about time I stop in and say HOWDY.  Boy I sure appreciate you stopping by and visiting Liberty House.  I know a few of you were wondering about the name of the patterns for a few projects that Ms. Denise shared - I emailed her and she answered back but thought I was just being nice and not serious.  Soooo bloggets I emailed back and said no I wasn't just being nice - inquiring minds wanted to know.  So Ms. Denise, what's the hold up :).  There - now the pressure is on her, lol.

So let's see what have I been up to since we last chatted.  Well we had a couple of peep get togethers.  One was our monthly get together.  There was a little show and tell from the evening.  Ms. PH showed her table runner that she was stitching down the binding on - cute patriotic runner

2 of the peeps bought the same kit at Country Threads when we went there last summer - hey wait a minute I do believe that I  bought that one to - hmmm but mines not done, lol. 

Great job peeps, they are sooo cute and so are you :)

Then we got together the other night to discuss a road trip we are going to be taking in September.  It was a beautiful night to sit outside and enjoy the beautiful scenery around us while we stitched

and visited, oh and ate as well, you know you've got to eat.

Look at these 2 cute bags a couple of them whipped up


it was perfect timing for me.  I was totally in need of some quiet time with the peeps, enjoying the touch of fabric, a beautiful evening outside, a cold snappy summer beverage (thanks GB) and some great laughs.  We have a fun trip planned through Wisconsin in the early fall.  Looking forward to it.

As I've said before son#1 who has his own landscaping company is doing all of the landscaping around the house.  It's been a busy few weeks with them here Monday - Thursday.  I know it's been a long haul for all of them as they travel and stay up here for 4 days each week, going home on the weekend.  Young Mr. Farmhouse isn't here the whole week, just for a day or 2 otherwise he is out tending to other business.  Anyway I try and feed them one good meal a week for a break from eating out, with some snacks during the day.  They are such a great group of guys and I've been teasing them that there going to miss me, lol.  There were 5 of them this week pushing to get it done before they headed home for the weekend tonight.  They will be back in about a week to finish up what's left like grass :).  This week was all the cement curbing, plants, trees and rock.  Mr. Farmhouse and I are loving the results and as I've said before, it's great to have son#1  putting his touch on our home.  Here's a few snaps of them in action
 

the side of the house with curbing and plants - there's the start of the fire pit towards the right of the picture
 

We are loving the patio and look forward to lots of butt time on there, lol watching the lake and listening to the waves
 

There's still be a fair amount of traffic through the house with worker guys, but that's getting less and less.  There has still been some internet issues, but those are also getting better - thank goodness.  Whoa there was even some decorating this week and let's say that one surprised me.  I was chatting with someone about feeling totally tapped out in that department, really struggling with it and needing to taking a break from house stuff for a bit.  Then boom I had a good day and a couple of areas came together and that might have started the juices flowing - I'm just sayin.  The star is up and in place and that makes me happy every time I look at it - it's home :)

Until Next Time

WOO HOO Mail Call

You all know that I LOVE my mail - especially when something I forgot about arrives

I pre-ordered this on Amazon a long time back and forgot about it - so when I received notice that something from Amazon had shipped I couldn't remember what I had ordered, no surprise there folks.  This book is full full full of wonderful quilts in Kim's scrappy style and here's a couple of favorites - this one's called Peas in a Pod

Cabin Cozy

hey did any of you know that I like stars, lol - so here's my favorite called Mocha Stars.  Stars, piecing and applique, a bit like the perfect storm for me - everything I like, well maybe not the piecing part, but the stars and applique

It was a treat to sit down and cruise through it and dream.  Will there ever be enough time for us to make everything that we want.  I'm pretty sure not - but let's keep trying OK.

I have been doing a little stitching - not much but a little

so there is hope :).

In the decorating department - this cabinet is finally where it's going to stay - well for the time being, lol.  Hey Linda how do I cover up those light switches - you are the queen of disguising and I say that with love :)

The new fireplace mantel is in place and totally up to code now, just waiting to be decorated - this stuff was just put there so it was out of the way.  If you look close you can still see the installers dust, LOL

My project today is to get this area totally done and I'm close believe it or not

I'm pretty sure the contractors didn't think I could fill up this closet, but I proved them wrong - is that a good thing, lol
One side fabric - which isn't much compared to some stashes I've seen out there, wink wink

and one side wool

the closet isn't perfect and there's still things to move in there and rearrange - but it's close.  I love those white tubs.  Found them at Fleet Farm and they are great for holding lots and lots of wool, projects and just plain old stuff.  Now remember I still have lots of cupboards in the sewing area - and they aren't full, but I'm onto a good start :).

Well that's it for me, I'm off to work on that sewing room and do some Farmhouse Woolens stuff.  Have a great day everyone

Until Next Time

Warning Will Robinson

Does anyone out there remember Lost in Space and the robot spinning in circles waving it's robot arms saying "warning Will Robinson warning".  Anyway my warning for long post ahead, picture heavy.  Lots to catch up on and then hopefully I will be all caught up and I can start catching up with everyone else out there.  Someone pointed out to me that I have really been MIA in bloggy land and she's right.  Soooo I promise it's time to get back to it. 

I wanted to have the title of this post be "Ahhhhhh Normal Life Ahead".  We are finally totally out of the other house as of this weekend and what a great feeling it is.  I'm pretty sure I've been packing and moving boxes for 2 months.  What a great feeling to know WE ARE NEVER MOVING AGAIN.   I've had several people ask me if it makes me sad when I go back to the river house, and you know it doesn't.  Both Mr. Lakehouse and I love love love living on the lake and although we loved the river, we have more attachment/memories in this area.  Our memories with our kids are from here at the lake and the house before the river house is where they really grew up, so I think that makes the separation much easier. The oldest never really moved into the river house as he started college right before we moved and the youngest only lived there 2 years before he left for college. 

Anyway I digress again, boy I do that a lot.  So let's start up from our last post - yup we did have the maiden voyage of the pontoon, (or "tooner" as someone called there's this weekend, love that name and if it's OK Lib I'm going to use it as well) over Memorial Weekend and a certain little furry one - LOVES IT.  Now I'm talking about Ms. Cami people not the furry faced Mr. Lakehouse, lol - although he loves it to.  You know I still like calling him Mr. Farmhouse and I think I will go back to that, it fits him better.  We are still a farmhouse on the lake, right?

Ok I'm going off topic again.  Let's see patio is done, but here's a shot of while they were working on it - my son is the one kneeling down tucked around the corner of the house.

Boy that is some back breaking labor intensive work.  They have done an amazing job and it looks beautiful - I'll save more pictures for when all the landscaping is done.  It will be so great to have his personal touch on our home.  It's been fun getting to know his crew.  I've done some cooking for them and boy they can eat, LOL. 

Back several days we had our monthly wooly meeting.  It was a beautiful day at Jean's farmhouse. 


so we spent the day outside enjoying it all.  There was some fun show and tell - first off our hostess Jean's projects - a cute quilt and a way cool cross stitch project that didn't photograph right for some reason

Next up Ms. Faye with a darling quilt

Now Ms. Joyce with some yummy little wool flower blocks


Finally rounding out this show and tell, Ms Denise who had lots to share.  First this dang cute pillow made with 2 sizes of a block

some more cute miniatures - this girl loves her miniatures

Love this bag

and finally a sweet quilt made for a grandbaby and it's a pattern she made up herself (didn't know you could do that, lol), the fabric is a bit hard to see but it was adorable - just like Ms. Denise peeking out from behind the quilt :)

Thanks woolies for a wonderful day, it was just what this girl needed, sunshine, friendship and fabric.

So back to being totally out of the other house.  I spent part of last week getting ready for a sale on Saturday.  It's amazing how much stuff I had ready to move onto someone else.  There are still a couple of pieces I have that I'm not sure will fit into this house, but I just can't give them up yet, I'm going to work at trying to find a spot for them.  I had decided that I needed to sell things that just hadn't seen the light of day for awhile.  I didn't want to move things that I wasn't using just because I liked them.  So I sent out letters to people I know rather than put an ad in the newspaper and told them to bring friends along and bring they did.  Here's a little shot of those who were there bright and early waiting for the doors to open

All 3 floors and the garage had stuff.  The sale started at 9:20 and by 10:20 it was done, LOL. It was a whirlwind of activity and someone said it was like the Friday after Thanksgiving, LOL.  We packed up what was left and I had just a few Rubbermaid tubs of stuff to donate.  I had 6 dear friends help me with the sale and I couldn't have done it without them.  They were a huge help during the sale and helped to make things go smoothly.  There were 3 doing the checkout and 4 of us were runners or helpers in moving things out.  I know right before the sale started I was a bit of a wreck or should we just say bitchy lol, but they just humored me and forgave my "shortness and stress".  Thanks you peaches, your the best :).  Yesterday I finished up cleaning and emptying the last few boxes here in the garage.  Now I do believe that everything is in the house, not where it will stay, but it's in the house, LOL.

One of our joys has been watching these little guys

We have 3 geese families that are living with their babies in our area and it's been fun watching them take the little ones out to eat and then they swim on the water up and down between us and 2 other places on the shore.  There such good parents.  One set only has 1 chick, but the others have a few more

So I think that catches everyone up.  There has still been some internet and phone issues during the last week, will just say we hope they've got them fixed.  It's been a bit trying on this chicks nerves.

I've listed a couple of new blocks of the month over on the website and will have lots more fun patterns to come.  Now that the sale is behind me I feel like I'm settled and in one place and ready to move on.  Decorating has been slow to nonexistent, but that to should be picking up steam now as well. I'm going to give myself 1 more "OK" not to respond to the last couple of posts comments.  I'm behind already and will be starting fresh with this post.  Hope that's OK. I love reading your comments and appreciate your visits more than you know.   I promise now not to be MIA - "AHHHHHH Normal Life Ahead" - At Last :)

Until Next Time 

New Name - New Banner

I say this with cautious optimism - I think my internet is fixed - YAHOO.  It's been a very frustrating week here with the phone and the internet to say the least.  Let's see - yup phone man came and thought he had it fixed, few hours later - no phone or internet for a 24 hour period.   Several and I mean several phone calls on my cell phone to the help line with at least a 15 minute hold time every single phone call.  Well long story short - the phone finally worked and the internet was still really bad.   Finally yesterday I called again (ready to scream at this point) to schedule another service call and ended up with a wonderful tech who walked me through several things and 45 minutes later I think we might have  figured it out and it's been working ever since. Last time I said that it came back to bite me in the you know what, so I say this very cautiously, lol.   Now hopefully I can get the website up and running and get back to blogging.

Amber over at the Shabbee Chick freshened up Farmhouse Woolens with a new banner and also gave yellowfarmhouse a new temporary banner in celebration of her new name.  The lake cabin was called Liberty Cottage and so I had decided that I would keep the Liberty part and just add house.  As soon as I get pictures of the house when things are more complete we will go back to the old banner with new pics, but I wanted the new name up so we came up with this temporary idea.  Amber is so easy to work with and was very patient with my very limited access to the internet.  It took us several days to get this done.  Thanks Amber

Thanks everyone for the sweet comments.  I answered several of you back before the internet when ca-put.  So I will thank the rest of you right now and start fresh with the next post.  You guys are the best :). 

I will see you back here on Tuesday with a fun post of our woolie day last week.  For now I'm off to enjoy the lake and go for that pontoon ride :).

Have a wonderful and safe Memorial Weekend

Until Next Time

Welcome Home

Wow it's hard to believe that it's been almost 3 weeks since I last blogged.  Well maybe it's not so hard to believe since my track record for blogging lately hasn't been very good.

Well moving went as smoothly as moving can go.  Hmmm am I settled in - no,  am I close - no,  is there light at the end of the tunnel - YES, I can finally say that and mean it.  There seems to be daily traffic through this house with workers coming and going to finish up those last few things, and there were a few days last week were it felt like (as my Mom would call it) - grand central station.  Wednesday was probably my toughest day were I had to work to be social. Everyone of those worker guys are wonderful, friendly, very very respectful of my house and quick to get their tasks done. They really are a dream team to work with and Mr. Contractor and his manager keep them all on track to get everything done - you can't ask for anything more than that. Both Mr. Farmhouse and I feel lucky to have had them all on this project.  But it's still activity in the house and distracting for me to get much done and Wednesday was my brick wall day - I hit it, LOL.  Friday was my first day with no one here and it was wonderful - hey I actually swept the floor - who would have thought that would be something to get excited about, lol.  We even had overnight visitors twice from some of my family last week. That was a pleasant and sweet surprise.   So lots has been happening here at the lake house. 

As you can see by the above picture - framing is going in for the driveway and should be poured this week.

a big truck of paver bricks has been delivered
 


for the patio and walkways which started last week.  Son#1 is doing all of our landscaping, patio, fire pit and walkways.  I should  have a patio to show you by the end of the week.

You can see the start of the stairway off the patio a little from this back view of the house - those 2 pillars will have lights in them and a pergola(?) will be off the right side sliding glass doors.  I'm so glad that I went with that color for the house - I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT

A sweet new ride arrived at the lake house last week

Our new pontoon - we've been waiting a long time to have one of these and look forward to many wonderful slow cruises around the lake.  We plan on having the maiden voyage this weekend

Let's see what else is new oh ya I've been struggling with internet issues as well as phone service.  I think the internet issue is finally taken care of, I hope - the phone service is still a bit iffy but were working on it.  We have temporary lines until they can be buried and I think that might be the problem with the phone. 

Boy I've really been MIA in blogland for sometime and I look forward to visiting with you all and seeing what I've been missing and getting back to chatting on a regular basis with you all.  I so appreciate all of the sweet emails from many of you wondering how things are going and if everything is OK.  That meant so much to me that you took the time to check in.   Several have asked about the whether the name of the blog will change.  Yup it will be, but the addy will stay the same since that's how people find me.  I've started the process of getting things changed around a bit on the banner.

I don't have a lot to show right now because I would rather wait until everything is in place and up to snuff. But I will show you the pic of one of my favorite details in the house (cripes I hope I haven't already shown you this, if I have, just go along with it, lol)

love love love the star transom window over each bathroom door.  A little hard to see but you get the idea.

Ms. Cami has finally adjusted with the move.  We boarded her for a couple of days while the move was going on.  She came home to the new house and struggled a few days with figuring it all out, she was a pretty confused little bundle of fur for awhile.  Plus with all the work people in and out for the last 2 weeks she's been very busy keeping track of everyone and naps are at a premium, lol.  This little pup is sleeping pretty early at night when all is finally quiet.   She spent a good part of Sunday looking out the door and watching Mr. Farmhouse rake the beach.  She was resting her head on this little stuffed doxie watching hubs and it was so precious (well maybe just to me, lol) until she heard the click of the camera being turned on, then the magical moment was gone  - love the picture anyway

She's finding her new spots in the house and settling in to life at the lake. Especially with her new stuffed doxie friend (yes I probably need a life, lol)

 

 

Tonight while we strolled around outside checking on things I took a picture of why we love living at the lake - this is about as perfect as it gets :)

I promise this blog will get more exciting in the coming weeks.  I will get back to sharing some decorating, baking and "gasp" sewing projects, LOL.  I'm craving creativeness so much right now.  I can't wait until life gets back to a normal groove again (whatever that is) and this blog can get back to what it started out to be, a place to share fun things. I need to sew, I need to bake and cook and I need to decorate - those needs are consuming me right now in the worst way.  Thanks for sticking with me all you bloggets out there.  I appreciate your visits even when there's been nothing new to share.  I have been blessed with your loyalty.

I will try and get back to all of you that emailed me privately and I will be back later this week - it's time to get back to regular blogging.

Until Next Time

Good Bye From The Yellowfarmhouse

Yup just 2 more sleeps until the big move.  I'll see you all around the corner in a little bit with lots to share.

Until Next Time