Our Dream Indiana Farmhouse

A few weeks ago, Tedd and I decided that it was finally time to let these ladies out of the coop! We got them back in July as 1 day old baby chicks. They were so tiny and fluffy when we brought them home from Tractor Supply in a tiny cardboard box. They have been in the right side of Floyd's coop for a few months now and we were so excited to let them outside to explore the big world around them. For those of you who have never had free range chickens, I'm telling you...you're missing out! They are so much fun to watch just pecking and scratching around outside, digging up bugs and grubs, being active all day. You can tell its just what they were meant to do...and they're so happy. So imagine our disappointment, and really downright frustration when we opened the coop and this happened. FEAR. They wouldn't go past the door. We stepped back and gave them time.  We tried to lure them out. We tried to carry them out...and they ran right back in and peaked ...

God is so amazing! And I don't know about you, but he loves to keep me guessing what he has up His sleeve next! I remember last fall (2017) getting a strange phone call from my brother. He, very out of the blue, called to ask me if we would be interested in buying a home. The strange part isn't my brother, well actually he is strange too, but that is besides the point! Ha! The strange thing was that this home he was asking about was within sight of the house we were renting, and it was like we had never really noticed it before. He was hoping to purchase the land around it and did not want the house. I told him that Tedd and I would think about it and look at it, but in all honesty I thought it was going to be a BIG no! Well, I'll spare you the months of waiting and details to say that it IS the perfect house for us and we knew it from the first time we walked through it!  We purchased it at the end of March and started planning a major renovation!  We started renovati...