goodbye old friend
I decided last week that it would be really nice to turn the goatshed over to "the boys" since that I don't really use it at all anymore. Now that I have my studio room I have a sanctuary right in my own house. Today I took most all my stuff out of the shed - especially candles and things that could start fires. I had moved my bed out last summer (it's in my room over here now) and added another old table to the shed so there are 2 tables and 4 chairs in it now. Gabe and Rossy swept it out and wiped off the tables and chairs and took possession today.
Gabe sitting out front - Roswell is fine tuning things
door with the curtain material I got from my friend Deb
east - I gave them the solar jar of light from the back porch so hopefully they won't feel like they will need candles and fires (though I do realize - that is what makes a clubhouse in the back yard so neat - candlelit nights!)
looking towards our house - you can barely see it behind that junk and the trees
mirror
after I accidently sealed a family of mice in the wall when we repaired some holes (I found out later when it started to smell) I put this picture on the wall to commemorate them and to say sorry
a print I made of the shed back in the days when it really was a goat shed - me milking Nanny and Greta on the right
south
tools I left for them
west
I think this little shed saved my sanity back in the days we were living next door and I felt so trapped in the house all the time taking care of mom. This shed gave me a place to go when it was raining and I needed to get out. It gave me a project to occupy my mind and gave me a goal. It really was my first attempt at "decorating" totally on my own - choosing colors and finding a style. A lot of appreciation goes to Dave for helping me - putting a new roof on it and an extra window and fixing the door. I kept a journal in it and wrote something nearly every time I spent time there. The first journal entry is May 3, 2010. This is what it looked like back then:
I'm glad now to turn it over to the kids though. It started out as my sister Kathy's play shed when we were kids and then after I moved back home after my divorce it housed my goats. It sat empty for 13 years after I married Dave and we all moved to live in Sandy Lake. We moved back here again in 1999 so we could be helpful to mom and dad and John and we brought our last goat with us - old Honey. She lived for a couple more years in the shed till she died and then it set empty from another 9 years. I think those years were the hardest on it - the roof went bad and there were no goats to keep the brush cleared away from the yard anymore. This last transformation since 2010 was pretty drastic and pretty wonderful. I hope the kids have lots of fun with it now.
Gabe sitting out front - Roswell is fine tuning things
door with the curtain material I got from my friend Deb
east - I gave them the solar jar of light from the back porch so hopefully they won't feel like they will need candles and fires (though I do realize - that is what makes a clubhouse in the back yard so neat - candlelit nights!)
looking towards our house - you can barely see it behind that junk and the trees
mirror
after I accidently sealed a family of mice in the wall when we repaired some holes (I found out later when it started to smell) I put this picture on the wall to commemorate them and to say sorry
a print I made of the shed back in the days when it really was a goat shed - me milking Nanny and Greta on the right
south
tools I left for them
west
I think this little shed saved my sanity back in the days we were living next door and I felt so trapped in the house all the time taking care of mom. This shed gave me a place to go when it was raining and I needed to get out. It gave me a project to occupy my mind and gave me a goal. It really was my first attempt at "decorating" totally on my own - choosing colors and finding a style. A lot of appreciation goes to Dave for helping me - putting a new roof on it and an extra window and fixing the door. I kept a journal in it and wrote something nearly every time I spent time there. The first journal entry is May 3, 2010. This is what it looked like back then:
I'm glad now to turn it over to the kids though. It started out as my sister Kathy's play shed when we were kids and then after I moved back home after my divorce it housed my goats. It sat empty for 13 years after I married Dave and we all moved to live in Sandy Lake. We moved back here again in 1999 so we could be helpful to mom and dad and John and we brought our last goat with us - old Honey. She lived for a couple more years in the shed till she died and then it set empty from another 9 years. I think those years were the hardest on it - the roof went bad and there were no goats to keep the brush cleared away from the yard anymore. This last transformation since 2010 was pretty drastic and pretty wonderful. I hope the kids have lots of fun with it now.