Garden

The flower garden area hasn't progressed much. The things Janie planted
are doing fine, that is, the ones not eaten by deer. The viney thing
is doing what it's susposed to. What we still need are large rocks !




We had some progress on the barn this month. At least now we can buy hay and store it dry without the use of blue tarps. This is an improvment. Next will be the inner wall, and floor.

Wylie Museum

Over the weekend, Janie and I visited the Wylie House Museum in
Bloomington Indiana. Mr. Wylie was the first President of Indiana
University. The university bought the house in 1947 while my
dad was working at IU.

It's all in the details. Only very old houses will have shutter
keeps that really work.



This first floor room was furnished as the master bedroom.




Mr. Wylie's beaver skin top hat and leather hat box can be
seen on the dresser.



This room was for the Mrs. as it contained items of intrest
like weaving, sewing and so forth.



This was a foot driven sewing machine of a style I have
never seen before. No detail was over looked.




This is one of several bedrooms upstairs. They were all so
big, even by 2010 standards. Two of them were furnished
with child-sized beds and one was a "sick room".



This upstairs bedroom has a second set of stairs leading to the kitchen
and a door out to a porch. There are windows on all four walls providing
wonderful cross ventilation.




Here's a room with no particular name that I can remember.
Chock FULL of nice old funiture, great floors and big too.




This book stand appears to fold up. Whay isn't this kind
of funiture made any more? No pressed saw dust, no pine,
no mass production, just really good lines and lastability.




How's this for a bright livingroom? The walls are all hand
painted on paper. Many items in this room are from the
family and date from the 1800's.



This Forte-piano was in the Wylie family and dates from the
late 1700's in England. It plays.



Not much modern functionality in this kitchen but
the pegs on the board, the transom over the door and the
five panels doors







The wood trim realy makes this room what it is,
the color and everything.



Just off the keeping room (kitchen) was a cold weather
pantry filled with everything a person would need in 1860.
the room had the small of old stuff.



I liked this pantry cabinet in particular. I can't decide
what type of wood that is, but it's very simple lines
and dimentions are outstanding.


This is a portion of the hand painted scene from the front hall.
The house in the picture represents Wylie House showing the
new barn now under construction. (see November post for
a tour of the now finished barn)

Flower Garden Continues

Janie made these rustic curtains for the laundry room a while ago. I lik'em because they're simple and she made them out of stuff that was other stuff before.
1] A valance of candles
2] Clothes pens as a curtain garnish.




The barn has looked like this for close to two years now. I started it before the house as we were waiting for other stuff to go through. When we started the house, the barn was forgotten. Well, it's time has come. Next week we get more of the board and batten. That stuff goes up fast and I expect to hav'er done well before August. That tarp has got to go !



I made these 'srooms for the garden out of Sassafras logs and Cottonwood limbs.
Not my idea tho', I saw it done somewhere else. We're still workin' on it a little here and there.
Mostly concentrating on the barn right now, but we do need large rocks. If you have any, how about e-mailing them to us?

Working outside

I know it doesn't look like much now, but it will soon. Jane and I found these two window security bars at a local junk/antique place in Beanblossom Indiana. It came to me right-away, "they belong in a flower garden" as a garnish. (Things used as other things) So we dug some holes and set'em up this weekend. We're planning to add thoses little solar lights on top of each 4x4 post. This week, I'll be adding dirt, pompous grass flowers and what-not.


...... and from the back.



Jane went to Israel a couple weeks ago, and in order to fill the days while she was gone, I busied myself with adding needed "anchoring" of the house to the property with a planting bed on the East side of the cabin. We have yet to add the mulch, but that's coming.

Ponderings throughout 2010

The first week of January 2010, I began taking pictures of our pond from the same location each time. Most of these were taken on Saturdays but some were taken when there were special or unusual lighting and so on. I'm wanting to create a montage that spans the 52 weeks of this year. This is the first.



Second week


The Third Week


Here's a Forth


And the Fifth Week


Sixth Week


Week Number Seven


Eight Weeks


Next is the Ninth Week


Now Ten Weeks, can you see Spring?


Well into March now with Week Eleven

A Dozen Weeks!


Week 3Teen

Reverse Angle (14th Week)

(Go to September to continue)