"How is the renovation going?"

OK folks I'm going to admit it. WE have done NOTHING in the torn apart rooms for about 3 weeks now and it is looking like it will be another 2 or 3 before anything more gets done.

Living on a farm means there are many other responsibilities that those inside your front door. On the average farm there might be time for more renovation however on our farm we are becoming day by day more industrious with the things we have around us.

Let me back up. We live on Neumann Ave. My brother in-law and his family live 1/3rd of a mile from our house and then in the other direction 1/3 of a mile of my in-laws house. In some areas they might call it a "compound" we however call it home! The in-laws have 200+ acres of farm land and they keep Steers and Sheep at our house because they don't have a barn. On the 200+ acres we plant hay as well as about 5 acres of pumpkins and squash that we sell. We are always trying to expand our products to sell in the fall. Last year Todd decided to start keeping bees.

Todd's grandfather used to keep bees and one summer even had 1 TON of honey- yes 2,000lbs! Most of the equipment was in one of the sheds. Todd took it down, cleaned it up and ordered some bees. (do you know they will mail you bees- Thank goodness I'm not a mail man!) Last year the spoils were about 60 lbs of honey. However those bees did not make it through the winter. So this spring he started over with 3 new hives. One of the hives swarmed in June and he now has 4 hives and so far this year with 1 extraction he has over 80 lbs of honey and is anticipating that much from the 2nd extraction. He is even selling it at our local country store just 4 miles down the road.

Also Todd has started making his own beer, not to mention making sausage and jerky. So between caring for the farm, cash crops like honey and pumpkins and making and drinking beer our bathroom is no further than it was 3 weeks ago.

The construction is contained in our home and if I close a door I don't have to look at it which is great. However I think after this weekend I will get the itch to start anything including insulating the walls.