Sheeee’s Back!

Well, another year has gone by with just one post.  In part, this was due to uncertainty about whether I would be staying in Farmhouse by the Falls or moving to the Big Apple.  In part, it was due to the very busy year I had getting ready for my daughter’s wedding at the house this past June (and then recovering from it!).  In part it was the workload of a full-time job.  Inspired by a colleague who participated in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month) achieving a near first draft of a novel she had been thinking about for years and a former student writing a 365 day blog journal I am back to the farmhouse blog.  It is a windy, rainy evening and as I sit cozily planning Christmas decorations and an Open House, this feels like the right time.

–Trish

Vacationing With the Pooches

In addition to trying to finish up as much of the kitchen spruce-up as possible, combating the godawful heat we have been having in DC, and rehabbing an injury sustained last winter (that’s for another post –  I’ll share with you my adorable but evil personal trainer Casey) . . . I have been researching pet friendly lodgings for the trip up to Maine to begin next Thursday.

I wish these were my pets:

Lilac and Olive as seen in Country Living

but I think they would be hard to travel with! Unlike this pooch:

no one is leaving me behind!

So I found a wonderful website called Bring Fido to avoid this problem:

Notice the pooch in the far backgraound . . .

And instead have this kind of vacay:

Yay!

Once we get to our cottage all will be well.  I’ll let you know where we spend the night on the way.

Kitchen Window Casing

It occurred to me that I should have the window and door casing redone before I painted the floor, so this morning Mr. R stripped the old casing and measured for the new, which will match what is in the rest of the house (at least what has been put in by me — the old casing is different in almost every room, sometimes with two profiles in one room! — Gotta love old houses and their quirks . . .).

From this:

window after the old flat casing was removed

To this:

casing profile in the "new" old areas

More pics tomorrow!