First Week

In our first week at Lick Skillet, we:

Unpacked and set up the house. It’s still more like camping than housekeeping but it’s fine for now.

Mowed the lawn. Mowed it again.

Trimmed and removed dead branches; liberated a grape vine from giant pokeberry plants.

Made a start on reclaiming the beds around the foundation of the house—they are over-run with trumpetvine and mulched with gravel, a hard combination to work with.

Dug up and moved several pails worth of geodes. They were placed around poles and in garden beds to be “decorative” but they wreck havoc with the lawnmower.

Cleaned out the house gutters.

Unstuck one out of three frozen faucet shut-off valves (plumbing post coming soon!).

Replaced one wall switch and swapped out incandescent bulbs for cfls where possible.

Started a compost pile.

All of this was grunt work; not particularly fun but necessary.

 But then we strung a clothesline and this place is starting to look like our house!