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  • Babci’s New Kitchen and Kitchen Design Tips

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    Tweet Here’s Babci in her mostly done kitchen. We still need to do some trim work but it’s functional and she loves it. The window  overlooks her chicken coop, so she can watch her chickens while hanging out at the sink. We kept the original stove and fridge for now as she picked almost the same…

  • Babci: Taking the Walker to the Packie.

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    Tweet This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while.  Not sure why I didn’t post it sooner. I have so many pent up stories in my head I don’t know where to begin. As a quick update, Babci is living with us. Her house is for sale, we’ve had one offer on…

  • Babci’s Dream House

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    Tweet We’re on dumpster 11 in the rehab of our 2 family.  The sad thing is that we haven’t even started gutting the inside yet. That’s just the major exterior repairs like roof  (3 layers) and rotted siding and trash removal.   We found some old tractor tires, rusted milk buckets and barbed wire during our…

  • Babci’s Revenge

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    Tweet This weekend’s tagsaling event did not disappoint. I did get a new Babci story to share with you all. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Babci has been known to have a bit of a vindictive side. For those who have done unusually cruel things to her or her family, she has no issue…

  • Chicken Sagas and Hobo Homes

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    Tweet So I’ve been spending every spare moment these last few weeks obsessing about my mom’s chickens.  The latest chicken permit hearing was last week and that in itself is a crazy story.  My town has what I’d call a process that’s almost impossible to comply with, mainly due to the cost.  Currently, applying for…

  • The Chicks are Here

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    Tweet This is going to be a short post, but I just wanted to throw a couple of photos up of our new chicks that we have at Babci’s house. They are sitting in her living room right now. My whole family was out of commission all week because of a horrendous virus, but luckily…

  • The Difference between a Hoarder and a Packrat

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    Tweet Babci regularly pulls things out of people’s trash.  As I try to make room for a chicken coop at the back of her garage, I regularly curse her hoarding tendencies.  Where did all this stuff come from? How do I keep all her empty spaces from filling up with junk?  It’s been a struggle…

  • Babci’s Home Remedy Experiments

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    Tweet The other day, I wrote about how we have a minor Babci crisis involving a wound that is not healing and I promised everyone an update.  Yesterday after her 4th visit to the doctor in 5 days, it actually started looking better. Some of the redness went away and it looked like the antibiotics…

  • Babci Story: Surviving on Milk Soup

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    Tweet If you’ve been  reading the blog a while, it’s no secret to know that the key  to Babci’s thriftiness is in great part due to the abject poverty that she grew up in.  In the winter, when food was running low, there was no meat ever.   The family’s only source of protein came from…

  • Babci’s Getting Chickens

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    Tweet I had my first house hunting letdown this week. We found a funky fixer upper on 10 acres in a good location and after 3 visits decided to put what I thought was a very attractive offer in. We gave the sellers an offer at the home’s assessed value and given that properties have…