I apologize to the folks who head over here regularly - the blog's been mighty quiet lately. We've found a house and are working out the purchasing details and whatnot, so I really haven't been doing the sort of reading lately that leads to bloggable stuff.
The house is far away from our current drug- and gang-infested neighborhood! It's a huge old farmhouse built in 1862 and much renovated, modernized and expanded over the years on the edge of a very small farming town with its own parish, a gas station, very busy railroad tracks, and traffic jams near the grain elevator during harvest time. There's room for six bedrooms, or eight if we divide two of the larger ones, one of which we'll turn one into a library & office and another into a classroom. It has two kitchens (upstairs and down), two bathrooms, a large yard with some good old trees, and on and on. We're offering prayerful thanksgiving to Saint Joseph for his obvious intercession, and we hope that all the remaining work will go smoohly - financing, inspection, and all that other stuff.
I'll post pictures when I have them, and I'm already thinking of starting another blog - This Old House: the adventures of a Catholic family in their 1862 farmhouse. It'd be handy as a todo list of things to fix and as documentation of the work we do on the house.
Posted by billw at October 27, 2003 06:50 AM