Tennescenic

This morning was foggy and beautiful, so I drove down a couple of back roads before starting work on the farm house. There was a lovely layer of frost over the ground and the crisp air was invigorating. I need to take advantage of these special mornings as often as I can.

Wow, I can’t believe it has been a month since my last post. Fortunately I have been pretty busy. Below are a few pictures of the progress on the farm. I am pretty much done with the interior demolition. The foundation repair company is coming in three days to tell me just how much of a mess things are underneath. Once I get a quote from them and their time frame on doing the work it will hopefully be full speed ahead. The one other bottleneck is waiting for the soil scientist to give me the results of my perk test so that I can get septic and building permits. I pretty much have the plans for the renovation/addition and garage/apartment finalized. Am in the process of finding reputable subcontractors. I am also searching hard for a good deal on a used tractor with front end loader. That will really help me be productive.

This autumn has been pretty warm and a little disappointing on the foliage front. I did manage to visit Monteagle a couple of weekends ago (will try to post some pictures soon), and the leaves looked pretty good up there, but the Nashville area has been pretty underwhelming. It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away. That should be a nice time.

Big news, we are about to buy an old farmhouse on six acres in Columbia. As in tomorrow. This has happened very quickly. The property went on the market about ten days ago and we close tomorrow. This is incredibly exciting and a bit nerve wracking. The basics are six acres and a 1600 square foot house about ten minutes northeast of Downtown Columbia. It is 30 minutes from Liz’s work in Franklin and 43 minutes from my parents’ place in Nashville. I would like more than six acres but this is a lovely piece of land that is very well laid out and the price was excellent. It will be large enough to do everything we want – goats, orchard, huge garden, and bonfires. The house needs a ton of work, including adding two bathrooms, but should be incredibly cool by the time we are finished. I am beyond excited and still processing the whole thing. I will write a lot more soon about our plans and goals for the property. But some serious work is about to start – I would like the house to be ready for us to move in by February 28th. Baby comes March 26th, so time is of the essence.

A couple of days ago I took a few pictures of the outside. On Tuesday I’ll try to take a lot more of both the house and land.

Well I spent some time messing with this site today. Added a few plugins, most noticeably the Instagram sidebar. I saw that it’s been about ten months since I posted anything on there. That will be rectified soon. I added a bit to the “about” page and started on the “maps” page. The latter will take a ton of time to both build the maps then link each marker to a gallery. Speaking of the galleries, I have not even begun them. Part of that is because I have so many photos to sort through that I am a bit overwhelmed. The other holdup is that I haven’t figured out how to format the page to my liking. Squarespace was much easier in that regard. I’m also unsure of what to do with the home page. I might just add one big image. I have considered running the blog from the home page, but for some reason that is less appealing. Oh well! The nice thing about the internet as an artistic medium if the flexibility. We aren’t carving chunks of marble here.