Barb M

Oooooh, i just LOVE your front veranda!!! So nice and peaceful looking :)

kathyd

Your house and yard look very inviting and homey. I hope the tornados didn't get to you.

swimmom

Lovely - I also was wondering about the "lifting of the house to put in a basement"

beachlady

Beautiful house and gardens. You must spend lots of time on your yard. It is so lush and green.

Feathers

Whoa...what a gorgeous home and garden...how do you have time to quilt with all the yard work someone obviously spends hours on? Your place is quite lovely. Makes me want to throw rocks at mine but,I won't because I love our home and garden, too. I don't do yard work or play in the dirt. Thankfully, DH loves that so he does ours.

barnbum

Just beautiful--what a wonderful place to come home to. The porch is my favorite! Or maybe the gardens. Or maybe sitting on the porch looking at the gardens. :D

ChristineD

Your home and grounds are beautiful. How are you doing with all the rain? I noticed standing water by the wishing well. Are you in a safe area? I feel so bad for everyone around the country and world that is having such horrid weather . Thanks for sharing and keep dry!
Chrissy

Feathers

In 1980 I bought a huge Victorian house with a wide, covered porch across the front and side of the house. I loved that porch. The house was build in 1909 and was the showplace of our town when built. When I bought it it had been a rental for 30 years, had had an electrical fire in it and was 4 minutes from condemnation....we had to jack the house up to repair basement concrete walls and to level the house and porch/deck since it was built prior to alleys and 2 streets that paralleled the property so when they cut those streets and alleys, the road grader equipment must have bumped and drug 2 of the concrete piers holding up the 10 foot wide deck and roof section ...nothing was ever done to straighten these up or to shore them up so over the next 1/2 century the weight of the deck and roof pulled everything away from the house and caused all kinds of problems. When we jacked it up and leveled it I was in charge of watching the level inside the house in the living room/dining room. As they jacked the house creaked, cracked and groaned like nothing I'd ever heard or imagined...scary beyond belief but we did it and my condemned house eventually turned out beautiful but it took me 10 years and wages from 2 jobs to pay for the remodel, repairs, etc. I was single and my dad had a fit when I bought the place as before I bought it I hardly knew how to change a lightbulb but I learned...still have the well used (and abused, at times) How To books with 18 volumes giving minute details on how to do everything. I did all the work on it that I could do and hired out most of the rest of it. Good thing I was young! I couldn't do it again and wouldn't even THINK of doing it now. :lol: :roll:

sandpat

Your home has a very "welcoming" look to it. I can tell you and your family enjoy and love it...it is so well cared for! I could sit on your porch for hours..thanks for sharing!