Our home...

One of our continuing goal in life is to be self sufficient. Everyday we make choices to get closer to that goal and most of the time i am happy and proud of what we do. I enjoy growing our own vegetables and building our own furniture and making our clothes but one of the less exciting parts of that lifestyle is the building  the actual house.

When it came down to choosing the siding of our house, we chose pine because we like the natural look of it but unlike the last house, we decided to paint it ourselves and therefore save a few thousand dollars. Oh and the nails, yes the thousand nails that keep that wood on the house, you have to paint those individually as well!!!! Well, although I am still happy about this decision yesterday was yet another day that I had to paint the siding and the nails...  It's a long tedious task that I do not enjoy, it makes me feel old and sore but we have to do it, and as Jason puts it up, it does look great! 

hopefully before the winter it will be all done and by next summer i can finally concentrate on the fun stuff; landscaping!!!!