Last summer we met some people at
our niece's wedding. We'd gotten to know the groom's family via
his mother's blog and found they were just as wonderful in person. For the past year they've been working on fixing up an old farm house. With visions of the big white, drafty farm house I grew up in, I asked if they had room for any help. As a result of that conversation, we scheduled a week gap in our Alaska trip to stop by and work on some projects.
In February, Ellen wrote me a public
Dear John letter explaining the project she hoped I would tackle. After church yesterday I did a bit of demo on one of the windows, and we'll tackle the other today. We're hoping to get two of the windows operating but there are at least 5 layers of paint that will need to come off, including the 1970's antiquing job.
At some point the window sash weights were decommissioned and the surviving weights were buried behind drywall. We'll need to do some spelunking to get to the sash weights so that we can install new sash cord and locate two other weights so we can get two of the windows operational.
It's great fun working on an old farm house, especially with a family like this. They're really trusting, letting me come in and start tearing things up with the intent of breathing some more New Life into their Old Farm.
