threegardeners's blog: Major Changes!

You might want to grab a tea or coffee, this is a bit on the long side.

I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old and cranky, but living around people was starting to annoy me. We lived in a small village, maybe 100 people. It was getting noisy though...kids screaming, lawnmowers, cars and 4-wheelers roaring up and down the streets. Just couldn't enjoy sitting outside at all.
I have a very stressful job and the constant racket was not helping, I wasn't getting my de-stress time. Just taking the dogs out to do their business was a hassle.

So I decided to sell the house. It was way too big for us anyways. A duplex. Both sides each had 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Mom on one side and Hubby and myself on the other. We were wasting more space than we were using....and Mom was getting lonely back there all by herself. We decided we'd buy a house just big enough for the three of us.

As soon as I got the for sale sign up I started looking at houses we could by. What fun that is!!

I found one we all loved...problem was we hadn't sold the one we had yet. Being me, I couldn't take a chance on it being sold so I went and bought it. Hubby and I moved 2 three bedroom houses in 2 days...just the two of us...never, ever will I do that again!



It was built in 1809. Under those bricks is 2 feet of solid stone. It was originally the local 1 room school house. Somebody turned the school house part into living room, bathroom, 2 bedrooms downstairs and 1 bedroom upstairs and then they added on a kitchen across the whole back end of it. It's perfect.

It even has the old original "his" and "hers" outhouse...which is perfect for the geese. It also has a nice sized workshop.



It has lots of trees but it didn't have a lot of gardens. Most of you know we had beautiful gardens at the old house and I couldn't bear to leave behind my cherished plants. I rented Hubby a rototiller for half a day.

before:

after:


after:





It's amazing what a motivated man can do with a rototiller in 4 hours!

Then we rented a 17 foot truck, drove back to the old house, and filled it as full as we could with all of our perennials. Mom had already dug every single bulb over the course of the Spring and early Summer.

Turns out the farmer in back of us is as thrilled as we are, he's tickled that we are taking the time to pretty the place up. Previous owners hadn't cared less. He helped hubby line up the outhouse and a fishing hut that was left behind. It's level, my picture taking is crooked :)


Behind the garage there was some funny clumps of earth. Hubs asked the farmer if he could level it a bit. That's when we discovered that he previous owners never went to the dump...they buried everything. Had to rent a 15 cubic yard garbage bin to haul it all away. Lawnmowers, mattresses, propane tanks, fencing, typewrites, shingles, tires, you name it, we found it buried. But we got it leveled by golly!


Hubby noticed some unusually shaped lumps on the other side of the back of the yard. Yup, you guessed it...more buried crap! Hubby had to dig it all out by hand this time.




But he got this level also!


He built me one of these with some rocks that were buried:


On one side of the house there is a triangle of three trees, an apple and two 50 yeard old spruce trees. We dug our new pond under there.


Then Hubby got bored one afternoon and decided we needed another garden.



The farmer out back gifted us with a rock shaped like a chair....because our other gardens all had rocks in them too. How sweet was that!



We have no close neighbours. When I step outside all I hear are birds and nothing else. It is heaven. Granted, it took a couple months for the three of us to get used to living together, didn't think I would survive that! Now we've all settled in and life is once again fantastic!

Some random shots of the peace and quiet that surrounds us.

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