January, 2011, has been COLD, with 9 inches of snow in York, followed by freezing rain. I'm so glad we now have heat in the farmhouse! The snow and ice finally melted, but more is predicted.
I'd never seen the sunset reflected in snow before.
If you wake up with the chickens, like we do, there are beautiful sunrises over the frosty meadows.
It's almost worth getting up that early!
The house has been unlivable for awhile as we prepared for floor refinishing. We tried to get messy jobs, like stripping wallpaper, out of the way first.
Everything that couldn't be moved was covered in plastic
to try to keep the sawdust off of surfaces.
Everything else was moved out of the main floor into the basement or attic. We wrapped plastic around the porch and moved Tom's desk out there. He has to have a place to work on income taxes!
A family of floor finishers came and spent a week sanding and putting three coats of polyurethane on the old floors.
It looks beautiful!
We also had a local company install slate in the master bath.
No plumbing yet, but it looks great.
Friday, the 28th, was our 44th wedding anniversary so we celebrated
at the Brandon House Restaurant in York.
If a marriage can last through remodeling an old house, it can last through anything!
