by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 13, 2011 | Buildings, From City to Country, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Maintenance
Well, we had an exciting afternoon recently! When you live in the forest, you get used to falling trees and branches flying around when the wind picks up, but we recently had a day that was a bit more dramatic than usual. A storm blew through one afternoon last week...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 30, 2011 | Animals, Buildings, Chickens, Construction, From City to Country, Lessons, Livestock, Materials, Repair
It’s something out of a horror movie. You come home from a fun, barn dance/Halloween party with your young family to find your livestock slaughtered in their pen, blood spattered everywhere, corpses ripped to shreds. A gory end to a family’s pets –...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 27, 2011 | Construction, Materials, Repair, Rural Living Skills
There’s something about rustic shakes or more refined shingles that just screams ‘country charm’. From old New England cottages to sprawling West Coast estates and tiny rural cabins and outbuildings in the Rockies, wood shakes and shingles have a...
by Victoria Gazeley | May 30, 2011 | Buildings, Insects, Repair
It’s coming on summer – time for the mosquitoes and flies to begin their annual invasion. And time to dig out the screen doors to check for holes and tears that would allow those voracious little bugs into the house to feast on your flesh! If you live in...
by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 19, 2011 | Construction, From City to Country
Restoring a heritage log cabin isn’t something I set out to do. It was never a grand life goal, or something I thought I might like to do ‘someday’. It just happened, and now, 12 years later, I’m so glad it did. I bought our little house in...
by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 1, 2011 | Cleaning, From City to Country, Maintenance
I’ll admit it – I’m a neat freak. And having a dislike of house dirt while living in the country is, let’s say, a bit challenging. Dirt sitting in places it shouldn’t be drives me crazy (dirt outside where it grows lovely things does not,...
