Doing 1,000 Things at Once

Before bombarding this blog with a slew of exciting new 1/2L action posts, here's a little tease,

a mere taste of what the heck I was also getting done in my house and home and garden and kitchen. Each image represents 30,000 small details that I can't describe in the space allowed by law.

Let's just agree to say that living life takes a great deal of time.

Four years ago we were fortunate enough to buy the house we had been renting for five years.

While taking care of minor repairs, a previously undiscovered attic with a 9' ceiling was revealed.

We embarked on a year-long process of transforming the two-story house into a three-story house.

It had been completely untouched for over 100 years, it needed to be made stronger

and by the end of construction had become more useful than we could have known.

On the left was my linen cupboard that was removed to build the beautiful

staircase taking you onto the new attic level, as seen on the right.

(Here's an example of dear husband using the space, in case anyone is interested.)

On the left, how the backyard looked when we bought the property,

and on the right is how the same view appears now at night. 

A tour is really needed to see all the raised beds for growing food crops

and the extraordinary pergola patio Kyelynn and I made

from the antique lumber removed during the attic renovation.

PS: A paint storage cupboard was built to cover the electrical meter box seen on the left side.

The doors for it came from the former hallway linen cabinet! Waste not--waste nothing.

Recognize these junk friends with vintage hardware features around the garden?

Yep, the linen drawers were put to fun use as well!

 Much constant work inside too. Above you see Paul's growling collection of books

cluttering up the living room until our builder created for him a full wall of custom shelves in his office.

Now each book is cleaned off, organized, and labeled by subject for easier reference.

There's so much more that can be shown, every dark forgotten place sorted and brought to order,

even under the kitchen sink. Anything no longer needed was given away. Pandemic-time Clean.

All this to say that from these newly shooken-out (not a word but should be) spaces, Halfland, although remedied last, has been brought forward just as much, perhaps even more. Hang onto your Halfhats!