Oddities

Many things I do have an unusual touch.  It is me and I enjoy the freedom to be me.  My Dreaming Porch has things many people would not show but I am happy and comfortable with them.

The wood stove oven from my playhouse in the woods

a felt fish on a broken treadle sewing machine peddle

my broken aquarium

my re-purposed floor vent and metal table

another broken part of a sewing machine

Dad's antique cage with wood cookies, gourds and a solar light

an old rusty milk can with a tray of rocks and a candle

another view of my dry aquarium

second generation Scooby Doo...

I couldn't get rid of him

My deep freezer is here

with a box of toys

a metal tractor

and my forgotten mop bucket.

These are the things on my porch.

The Dreaming Porch

had been neglected for dreaming and cleaning.  So I decided it was time to "get 'er done". 

My swing, a gift from my daughters

and a table I made with scraps

The far end with the repaired chair.

Hoping to find some time to dream.

Being Honest

I'm going to be down right truthful with you.  Farm life is not easy. Having acreage is not easy.  Having little money is not easy.  Can I get an Amen?!

Those who homestead and farm know exactly what I'm talking about. If there is any way an animal will escape it will, piping will always break when stores are closed and you can rarely reach the friend that knows how to help repair.  That's just the way it is and we all get by either by doing it your self or turning the water

off until your friend can come help.

I know few people that are experts that don't want money so I do the best I can.  My husband had told me for years and I quote "I ain't no damn carpenter!"

I used a pick ax today to dig and lay a row of bricks to keep siding off the ground.  May not be the right way but it works and it's level. Three pieces of siding done.  Hallelujah!  And it only took this old rusty body three hours to figure it out, cut it and get it done.  I am working with scraps so don't expect home and garden.  I am proud and when it is painted to blend some may never know especially since this is a seldom seen spot.

Not bad for an over weight rusty retired postal employee.

Then we began to play with rocks.  This is the center rock for my latest hot new project.  I am combining my water gardens or that's the plan.  I have the tractor tire garden, and the water garden I built for Dad. 

My brilliant plan, an engineering feat, is to have the water run over this huge rock down the natural channels into the re positioned tractor tire which will be buried on a tilt.  This will then run into the larger garden and recycle back to the rock.  Sound good?  Yes. Sound difficult?  Yes.  Sound impossible?  Absolutely not!!!

Where there is a will there is a way.  The new location of this masterpiece will be directly beside the steps that lead to the Dreaming Porch.  

If you have some digging tools and muscles, come on over.  I will supply drinks, food, and music.