A peek inside

Lots of projects have been going on inside as well. My dad and Toma took the plaster off of the ceiling in the dining and living rooms exposing the beams.

Most of them are in good condition, some with a beaded edge. The next step is to sand everything down, router a beaded edge on the beams needing one and then stain or paint. I'm leaning towards painting the ceiling an off white to give the room a feeling of more height, but we'll see. We're a good way off from the painting portion of the renovation. So far the work is moving along pretty smoothly. We run into snags once in a while, but the unwavering gratitude and joy we have for this opportunity to work and create a home for our family makes any hurdle seem surmountable.

I am often reminded of Thoreau's "Walden Pond" when working at the house and lately these words have been running through my mind,

"There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? "