Cornstalks harvested and ready to sell

Cornstalks harvested and ready to sell.  This actually took longer than I thought it would, getting them together and binding them.  We will sell them to city slickers this coming weekend, probably for $5/stalk (but they are big stalks).

 

Michael Alan Jones

 

Bedlam's End Farmhouse in 1911

This is our farmhouse in 1911. An 80-ish woman showed up at our house with this picture recently, and said that she lived in the house, and her mother was in this picture as a child.

The patriarch is the old guy in the center. He is the fourth person to own the house, so we know it was built some time around/before the Civil War. We can't pin the year down yet.

The Bedlam's End Garden

We have harvested some onions, carrots, lettuce, peas, and everything else is 1-2 weeks away.  Parsley and basil failed, and the onions were weak. Also, we have started getting blueberries (in the other garden), but they are still a little tart, and Pumpkins are on their way.

 

 

Michael Alan Jones

 

 

 

The new stairway...

We hung a very old map of Kentucky and a map of Shakertown on the walls, as well as putting in some furniture, such as the settle [seat] on the left bottom and a 3-seater Hitchcock chair on the landing, (which is obscured by the old Santa hanging on the railing).

I also hung a folk-art chandelier, made from old bits of tin, coiled up in swirlies. This matches other similar pieces in the house; e.g., the wall hanging in the kitchen over the wall pantry.

This is the old stairway...

What the master bedroom looks like now...

This is what the master bedroom looks like now. Note that we are still deciding on which paintings to hang in this room. Also, we have removed the vinyl horizontal blinds and replaced them with interior wooden shutter blinds, per the period.

What the master bedroom used to look like...

This is what the master bedroom looked like, when we bought the place: