It’s been so long since I’ve posted anything that I’m not certain I even remember how😂
My mom has been after me to post pictures of our completed home. So I had better get on it!
I know I haven’t been good about keeping you up to date on our progress and for that I apologize. I would like to say that I will be better about it in the future, but I will not make a promise that I most certainly won’t keep 😂😉
It’s been almost a year since I’ve written a blog post! What a year it’s been too…
Ron and I have been super busy building our home. The only things we haven’t done ourselves so far was the cement foundation and putting the shingles on the roof. We did bring in some muscle a few times, AKA, Sam our son-in-law.
I’ll have to say that this whole global pandemic thing has given us plenty of time to work on the house.
Here are some photos to catch you up on all the progress.
The inside of the house is all framed and the rough plumbing is in.
So now you’re all caught up😉
I’ll try to post again before next year😂
It’s been quite awhile since I have written a blog post, just about six months. The time has flown by since we left pipelining to be home full time.
In that time we have started a handyman business and I have been teaching pottery classes.
Our good friend, Sally, got us started with a few well placed social media post!🎉🎉🎉
We have been busy ever since. Currently we are booked about three weeks out!
Ron is loving the variety of work and the challenges that some of the jobs bring. I work with him as his assistant most days.
I have been enjoying introducing people to the art of pottery.
I do an introduction to the pottery wheel class and also a pinch pot class.
It has been a lot of fun to see how different each person’s pieces turn out, their personalities totally come through in their pottery ❤️
Along with this new life of being home full time comes some challenges that I didn’t expect.
As I have mentioned before I struggle with depression and anxiety. Changes in my “normal ” routine causes me stress, which in turn affects my anxiety and depression in a bad way🤪
I find it very frustrating that being home and pursuing all the good things that God has brought our way has been tainted with the worst depression and anxiety that I have ever experienced.
With the constant urging of my daughter I have finally taken the much need step of going to counseling.
I am hopeful…
I’ve been spending a good part of most days with this lovely weed eater😩
I’ve always tried to stay ahead of the weeds when they’re little, but we didn’t get back from New Mexico until the weeds were already waist high… so I weed eat and weed eat…
I finally feel like I’m making headway 🎉
When I’m not weed eating plants I’m planting plants😂
Ron made me a nice little sitting area with some of the boulders he has been finding.
Josie and Dallan asked if I would plant some lambs ears for them. Finding a nursery that had them was a bit of a challenge, but I finally found some along with some lavender and ridged verbena, all favorites from gardens I have had in the past.
While I’ve been weed eating I have also found some pretty wildflowers 🙌
Here is an arrangement of wildflowers and wild sage that I picked.
I even have a few rose bushes in my garden area by the fifth wheel that are blooming!
I’ll have to say that I am enjoying being home! Even with all the weed eating I have to do, I still like being here and seeing the farm starting to shape up😍
This last month has seen lots of life changes for our family. My dad pasted away on Good Friday. It wasn’t totally unexpected, but still left us all feeling shocked. He was eighty six years old and had heart problems which he had pulled through every other time, but not this time. I guess God was ready for him to go on home.
This is a picture of my mom and dad taken this last August at their sixtieth wedding anniversary. He will be missed.
With the death of my dad, Ron and I felt it was time to be home, closer to our families. We had been talking about it for awhile, but this was the catalyst we needed to pack up from the job in New Mexico and head for home. Now we are trusting God to show us how we can make a living here at home. Stepping out in faith is a scary thing and I’ll have to say that I’m struggling with it… like terrified.
I’m planning some weekly craft classes that will include pottery, sign painting and paper flowers. Let me know if there are any particular classes you would be interested in. I’m also available to do private group class/parties as well.
We are trying to make room for another storage container that can hold my pottery supplies and also furniture people want to give us for when we get the house built. Ron has found a couple huge boulders that he can’t move with his tractor, but they are in the way and need to come out. He never gives up and always finds a way to get the job done😊
Here is a time lapsed video of one of the boulder.
I’ll try to be better in keeping you up to date.
Until next time…
Stone Creek Farm 