The Pearl of Monticello

06/29/2024

06/19/2024

baby bluebirds are hungry!

05/09/2024

maybe a couple days old

04/11/2024

beautiful rainy day, with loons calling too!

02/22/2024

dogs don’t care if the pecans are a little old

12/21/2023

Not gonna lie…it’s getting really hard to get stuff done because all I can think about is Christmas puppies!

12/21/2023

Daisy welcomed 9 (yes, 9!) puppies into the world yesterday. They are all perfect and mama is doing well.

12/05/2023

Merry Christmas!

10/11/2023

Lots of work getting done the past couple days; hay ing, addition on the house, and the barn!

10/03/2023

Wile E was visiting last night

09/17/2023

Leo the duckherd and another great sky at sunset

08/22/2023

20 August sunset

08/01/2023

Can’t wait for the porch to be completed!

07/21/2023

24 foot tall true 8x8 corner post (old-growth yellow pine) on the house. You can see the 1” peg used to to join the diagonal brace to the right of my hand. Also. True 10x10 beam on the second floor - one continuous timber - runs the width of the house, about 55 feet long. Also can see the backside of the wainscoting- one piece about 20x24, and not plywood. All joints are Morris and tenon- only nails found were used for old cedar siding

07/21/2023

Under construction

07/14/2023

07/06/2023

Luna moth

07/06/2023

Pruned the green wall entryway shrubs

07/05/2023

Finally some rain!

06/14/2023

Happy Flag Day

06/06/2023

We’ve sprouted kittens!

06/05/2023

Off with the old (not so old) enclosed back porch

06/05/2023

Another great sunset

05/27/2023

Hay baled just in time for the rain, thanks to Jason at Triple J Farm

03/20/2023

broke-in the new piazza this weekend

03/08/2023

Patio (or piazza?) progress

09/17/2022

Pic of the week: patio paver delivery