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Writer’s Retreat
Our First Year
Cleaning house
Digging out the foundation
Homemade!
Front porch
Smoky
sunrise
Farm Lane
Okra
Old stuff discovered
Heirlooms
Marzanos on the vine
Log puller
Painting the bat house
Jill is the beekeeper
Eastern field
From our 100-year-old arbor
Western field
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Our Second Year
Our biggest black snake
cherries
Herbs in the garden
peas from the garden
The kitchen garden
Honey bees swarm out of the hive
Azaelas
Cherries from our trees
Horse manure
Scout and Hank: new arrivals
Library of the Writer's Retreat
zinnia
painting an outbuilding
Cherry blossoms
Drying herbs
sorting antique molding
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Our Third Year
Kitchen refinished
Putting on the weather van
An Amish auction
Guest room refinished
Cupola on the big barn
Peach pie
Trees wreck our greenhouse
Ron's hats
Kitchen refinished
Corn snake in our basement
Morning glories
Installing the chicken coop
Kitchen refinished
A country breakfast
Drying sunflowers
Red lettuce from the garden
Frozen sewage
One season's canning
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Our 4th Year
Dining Room
Dining Room
Dining Room
Wood-burning Stove
New Bathroom
Living Room
Living Room,
Dining Room: stripping wallpaper
Our Old Truck
Plaster Gloves
Heavy Rains
Kitchen WIndowsill
wind blew off the roof of an outbuilding
wind blew off the roof of an outbuilding
old cabinet in the shop
Sophie loves a basket
our new adoptees: basset hounds from China
Raised the roof on our tiny house: the Casita
our big bank barn
barn interior
barn interior
barn stage
barn stage
barn interior
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Our Fifth Year
Our annual October event
Scrapper
Barn sale
Baarn sale
Canning in the fall
Our first crop of peaches
Four kinds of peppers
Farm lane
Maisie
Sunrise
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Our Sixth Year
new laundry room
built-in ironing board
repainting the barns
repairing the barns
Hen House Cottage
autumn harvest
Maisie eating berries
Hen House Cottage bathroom
Hen House Cottage
Hen House Cottage
Hen House Cottage
Hen House Cottage
photo: Elaine Malcolm
photo: Elaine Malcolm
Scrapper
Maisie and Oliver
Pandemic bread
A new old sign for the barn
Jill with. her favorites
Ron's office
new siding for the big barn
Oliver likes painting
building the school house
Cicada--the 17 year horde
Cicada husks
Pan pipes of Mud Dauber's nest
Our Seventh Year
our northern field
a truckload of walnut boards for The School House
Paisley
home-grown popcorn
Jill clowning with Scrapper
Ron's office
detail from The School House
detail from The School House
Cora
Otis