Promise Acre: Our Journey

Mike CHS said:

Are you keeping some 'before and after' pictures? We were really glad that we had when we had visitors to shoe them how bad our place was when we started.

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Yes I actually have a Promise Acres Renovation farm page on Facebook

And honestly haven't made many plans on what the house will look like... just hopefully will be liveable.... DH likes carpets in bedrooms but we want to figure a way to keep hardwood (or put down some wood looking laminate boards?) in the rest of the house. But we'll see. I am thinking this will be a long term project... we'll get basics done and put our current place for sale then worry about "upgrades" in the future. I know the kitchen and upstairs bathrooms need some major work.... so they will be priority.

We went with sheet vinyl laminant that looks like old gray barn wood boards in our kitchen and bathrooms. One bedroom and the livingroom needs carpet, but it's not too bad and will have to wait.

With kids, go for practical too. Not that they can't learn to "take off your shoes" or anything, but the floors need to be able to withstand some serious traffic. I love wood floors, but they do take upkeep. Carpets are okay but it is true, they do collect dirt. My son did some "squares" of some kind of flooring in the house he rents and really likes it for looks and for practicality.

My kids were raised on hardwood floors, I did a light refinishing a couple of years ago after 20+ years. The "no shoes" rule is not hard and saves the floor. I still see no reason for carpet in the bedroom, slippers are easy to slip on and slip off, maybe that is why they are called slippers And carpet is even harder to clean under the beds. But to each their own, I don't live there

The B&B DW and I stayed at in Charlottetown, PEI had floating "wood look" floors. NOT a fan at all. We could feel and hear them move as we walked.

We did get in our trail ride for our anniversary Sunday. It was fun though raining and DH was sore from work last week. He also didn't get along too well with Daisy... said she wouldn't move off his leg and kept putting him in trees... it was muddy and trails we explored were a lot more challenging than our local ones.

He continues to work the ground for our hay field and we got some posts dug out where the septic will be going.

Happy belated Anniversary!

promiseacres said:

He also didn't get along too well with Daisy...

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promiseacres said:

said she wouldn't move off his leg and kept putting him in trees

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Or it could be "Operator Error"

RollingAcres said:

Or it could be "Operator Error"

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I finally decided it was his long legs (and sore legs)... and the fact that I convinced him that we should take Daisy and not his horse, Duke whom hasn't been ridden since last November... we'll just say it's a personality clash and when he wants to ride he can ride Duke the prancy obstinate Morgan who listens when he wants too...

It was a busy week last week. My 4 year old has been helping me nightly with horse chores, while the other two water and hay rabbits. And John's birthday Sunday.
This week DH wants to mow ALL the hay fields AND plant the prepared field with orchard grass and clover. We'll see... sounds a bit over ambitious. and he is talking of me learning to run the tractor while we bale. I just have one last large carpet upstairs to get out... and all the floor coverings are gone from the upstairs, except one stair... might get that this week. Mom's still has the dining room, kitchen and living room filled with junk... says she's been going through it but we don't see much improvement. They did decide to keep the RV since one wanted to pay her price... and moved it to her place. But now we have another trailer at the farm.
Our two pastures at our current place have had the weeds mowed but not growing too well... so needing a lot more hay with the extra two horses. I sure wish we were closer to moving... but I guess it is what it is.