When Philip and I began planning our wedding, we needed a backdrop for our ceremony. We talked about an archway as a possibility for a country backdrop. However, I was drawn to the idea of a hitching post. One of the local venues has one on their farm and I always loved the idea of…
While fall is dedicated to hunting, we always try to work on some of our ongoing projects. With construction of the house on our minds as a soon coming project, we need to wrap up some existing projects. Joy and Danny were in Kentucky with us, they helped to fill the feeders since they arrived…
When we returned to Kentucky, the bathhouse construction continues. We removed the temporary roof and tarps and set to work to finish the fourth wall and to get a solid roof on the structure. Check out what we accomplished last time. Restructuring the Roof The shed was modified from the traditional roof to a higher-pitched…
On our first walk through the new property, I spotted what looked like a rock water slide. We were on a mission, so I didn’t take time to explore the area, but I made a point to come back to see exactly what the rock was. The trail is behind the waterfall in the image…
Philip has a gift of seeing what something can be, not what is might actually be. He was called to a tree job to remove a tree that has fallen on a shed. He agreed to the job and asked if they wanted him to remove the damaged shed as well. They agreed and he…
Everything we do at the Florida House is a chance to experiment with techniques without the consequences of self sufficient living. Here if we try something and it’s not successful we have the resources around us that we can have food from another source. The goal of self sufficient living is that eventually everything we…
On the homestead we have a variety of hunting stands: lock on’s, ladder stands, double stands, and tripods. We have several popup ground blinds and sometimes we make one out of tree branches for cover. Philip wanted a sheltered shoot house to use when weather might make hunting less than desirable. Building the Shoot House…
In July of 2019 we took another workcation to Kowalski Mountain. The goal of this barn raising trip was to get the roof on the barn. We brought reinforcements this year, my parents Tom and Betty-Lou Seager made their first trip to the homestead to help. My dad is a skilled carpenter and my mom…
In the Spring of 2019 we began the frame work of the first permanent structure on Kowalski Mountain. Barn raising part 1 takes the homestead to the next level. Logs Cut and Peeled We cut down a total of 11 trees and began the process of peeling them. They peel kind of like a banana……
One of the predominate features of the Kentucky homestead is the red clay. When dry, it’s rock hard. Difficult to till, extremely hard to shovel. However, when it’s wet, it’s very different. The slightest grade, like the one in front of the RV is difficult to drive over, causing you to slide towards the creek….
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