It is not time to put the quilt on the bed but it will be soon.
I have noticed while looking at this picture, that there needs to be a repair. At the top of the photo is a seam issue. I did not know this and now that will be on the front burner for mending day. I don't want anything to happen to my favorite quilt.
Just a reminder that there are no diary posts until later in September.
The season of summer has not changed here yet but it does seem like a good time to make some changes in preparing for fall.
The summer has been too hot to work on the old woodworking shop and now seems like a good time to start working on it again. For those new here, we are converting a small woodworking workshop into a very tiny house we have named Our Tiny Home. We are calling it that because we are making it a homey place to stay.
Our family member, Madge, needs a bit more help now and we need a place to stay close by when we go up and work. Charles and I are slowing down now and cannot get as much done in a day so we knew we needed to do something before we get even older.
The vintage bed frame that has been stored in the blue guest room waiting to be taken to the tiny home. I cannot wait to be at the point of sleeping in it.
Our three "girls" (doggies) Katherine (dachshund), Elizabeth (Dachshund/Cocker spaniel mix known as a Docker), Bernadette (Pekingese), and Belle (our Cockatiel Bird) go with us and when we finish our tiny home we will all have a comfy place for all of us to stay if we need to stay overnight to do extra work the next day. We normally drive back and forth but with the price of gasoline, this will be better.
A few months ago we replaced some rotted deck boards at her house and I planted spring plants for her in pots earlier in the year. We have just pulled most of those and planted fall plants.
When the tiny home is finished Charles can leave me up there if Madge needs extra help and I will be close by and stay as long as necessary so the Tiny Home will be very useful and comfortable.
I will be sharing how we live with the very basics and this will be much more basic there. I come from a time when people still toted water to the house.
I enjoy saving resources and money so this new adventure is exciting to me because there is always more to learn.
I am going to start a new Title here on my blog called Going back to the Well. I will be putting posts of stories of my memories as well as taking you along with us each time we stay at the tiny home. I hope you will follow along.
I am starting to feel more like myself after a slump and so I hope my posts will be interesting and helpful because I still have a lot to share about living like the past.
Our way of living a simple life without running water will be part of our life in the tiny home (200 square feet). We have used this method off and on here at the big house. It will be good for us so we will be more aware of waste when we come back to the big home (1100 square feet).
A link below to one of my posts in May of this year where I showed a few pictures of the inside of the tiny house after we finished the difficult work of cleaning out this space and started insulating the walls.
https://gdonna.com/living-like-the-past/this-thing-called-home/
See you soon, Grandma Donna
