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Take that critter… (s)
Well the free range lifestyle of our chickens has been abruptly halted thanks to an unwanted critter who had the audacity to pick off 3 of our beloved birds!😖 To get the chickens safe and sound and critter free, we built a chicken run and tunnel. Took us a week to get it all done…
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Don’t look…
You know when you don’t want to look at something but then you can’t help but look? Well that was the predicament I found myself in when they installed the big living room window this week. Side note… We still don’t have an ETA for the wrong size windows in the master .. waiting on…
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Currently serving tape spaghetti
Remember when you were listening to music on a tape player and all of a sudden it would get garbled and when you pulled out the tape all the ribbon would come out and you’d have spaghetti? Well that happened this past week to my sweet emotion song … yep the guys showed up to…
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AC/DC sang it… TNT… up here on Needle Eye we sing.. T&T – aka.. Tile and Trim
Yes the sound track happening up here on Needle Eye is the sound of saws, grout mixing and scraping and air hoses! Loving the outcomes thus far! Next up…. Windows!!!! Yes you heard it here first… windows are here and ready for install. Let’s finish this blog with another 80s homage… and after months of…
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Counter crush..
You know on HGTV when the home owner comes into their new kitchen and they hug their counters 🙄? … Yep I used to roll my eyes, until yesterday, when I did that exact same thing😳! I get it now… the crush is real y’all! I couldn’t be happier with how the countertops turned out.…
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There is tin on the ole rat shed..…and the chickens approve!
Soooo…. you know that the rat shed has been full of mysteries, “treasures”, surprises, cool finds and of course poop…. But I’m thrilled to report that it has finally gotten its shed glow up! Just so you remember. Here is what we started with last August when we bought Needle Eye Mountain. Over the year…
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Progress is happening
Here on Needle Eye, progress is happening. Tile has begun and ceilings are close to finished. Picked out our counter tops and got a visit from an unwanted inspector…. the kind with a rattle… Abraham, our tile guy, is a one man show but wow he is good. He ends the day with everything set…
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Cabinet delivery
When cabinets get installed you can sure start to picture the layout of the house and I’m thrilled with it. Kitchen cabinets, pantry, laundry room, bathrooms, bar and built-ins have all made their way to Needle Eye Mountain! With the cabinets installed we can now get measurements for counter tops! Time to bring on da…
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Red neck stairs…
Everyone is sick of me groaning and moaning when I try to get up and down from our new house porch. Our step latter is just not quite tall enough or my hips are just not quite flexible enough…. It’s the stool I’m sure. The final steps can’t get poured yet because they need to…
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Time to Tile!
The tile is here! Well almost all of it. Still need the laundry room floor tile to come in. So it’s time to start tiling the bathrooms and entry way. Let’s all take a minute to pray for a break in the tile guy’s schedule to get us started🥰. I ordered the slate tile from…
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Time for the “rat shed” to get some more love:
You may remember the machine shed AKA the rat shed from previous posts (…. Short end of the story… a rat chased me out of there…thus the name). Well it’s time to get back to work on that place. Scott has begun the yucky job of rehabbing the old machine shed. He is slowing tearing…
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Slow and steady … essential for scaffolding… and my patience!
The wood ceiling is going up in the great room this week! It’s a pine tongue and groove treatment and we will stain the wood to coordinate with our flooring. We also had our first delivery of cabinets. Okay now for the patience part… we are still waiting on our windows!!! Once they arrive the…
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Sawdust…
Okay I can’t help myself.. one more homage … This time.. Guns and Roses … knock, knock, knocking on heavens door… but let’s make that knocking on needle eye doors… But can we talk about the sawdust .. holy cow! Yep the doors and trim have arrived and going in! We’ve got several weeks of…
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Nope, nada, no way, uh uh, um no thank you..
img_0538 Nope.. snakes are NOT welcome in da’coop! Y’all I walked into the coop to drop a golfball into the nesting box (it’s supposed to promote egg laying in the nesting box- not anywhere that strikes the chickens fancy like mine are doing way out in the woods)…. So as I’m about to drop the…
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Calling all Hair Band Junkies… it’s time to ROCK!
“I wanna rock”. No one sang it better back in the day than Twisted Sister. And in honor of those glorious hair band days…. It’s only fitting to pay homage to it when our house is getting its rock on!! Now let me say… rock install is not for the faint of heart nor the…
Taming Needle Eye Mountain 