Dinning Room Demo

Jeff and his brothers took apart the dinning room on Friday and Saturday. 

Jeff started by putting up a plastic wall between the living room and dinning room

Then he made a plastic door between the dinning room and the kitchen.

This blocks just about all of the dust from going in the house. There is still some that gets in the house but not much.

On Friday Jeff and His brother took down the plaster.

As you can see in this picture Tony Jeff's brother is showing off the wall without any plaster on it. Next step is to take down the lathes.

Saturday (day2) 

Jeff, Tony, Tom and Josh all worked hard to get all the lathes off so its down to the studs.

Jeff is Ready for work.

and here is the wall that tony was showing off before

and then the wall between the office and dinning room.

They also took up the pergo floors; thank goodness that's gone... we are going to put in oak floors once the walls are back up.

Charles Jeffrey Hoeft

Charlie was born at 12:10 PM on February 9, 2012

20 1/2" long 9 lbs 3 oz

He was a very fast delivery 7 min of pushing total. 

My Dr broke my water at 7:30 am 

We walked the halls from 8-9 am

When I got back to the room the nurse put me on pitocin 

an hour later I got the epidural and he was born 2 hours after that

Charlie is a happy baby and a good eater.

His big sister Natalie got to meet him yesterday 

She likes to look at Charlie but doesn't want to hold him.

Its really cute to see her with him

She likes to poke at his face. Good thing she is gentle when she pokes.

We will be going home today (Friday) after lunch 

So you will be able to visit us at home if you would like

Please call or text before you come out to make sure its a good time

Spring Fever

I got my new issue of Mother Earth News magazine in the mail yesterday and after looking through it I have a major case of spring fever. For starters they have a program called garden planner that will tell you when to plant seeds and help you design your garden. Using the nearest weather station to help you keep on top of your garden and will also keep your record for years so you can look back at them and see what you liked or didn't like about your garden.

From my understanding the program can be used on your computer or iPad.

The issue also had some books that sounded interesting to me

 I do not own Homegrown & Handmade but it is on my list for books to get.

I do own this book and I really like it. If you would like to borrow it let me know and I will see if we can arrange it.

The Milk book I do not have yet but I really want to get before Jeff and I move to a farm. This book doesn't have to do with Gardens but from what I hear dairy animals have the best milk in the spring when they get to eat fresh spring grass.

There are so many other books I could go on and on about but I will leave it at these three for now.