Stairs in Progress

     This seems to be the longest and most tedious project yet.  When we moved in the stair heights ranged from 6 1/2" to 8 3/4" tall.  We also had a really funky diagonal landing - if you weren't on the right foot coming down the stairs you missed the step on the landing (at least it happened to me).  Maybe the previous owners always started on their right foot and never had a problem with the weird step...............whatever, now it's fixed and I don't have to remember "right foot first"!  We didn't like the original newel post so Jim started building, and building, and building.....and the newel post grew, and grew, and well, you know.  So here are the pictures of stairway mid-project.

The next exciting news is that Bella killed her first mouse this week.  The cat played with the dead mouse for a while and then Bren played with it.

Bella on her 2nd favorite perch - the tractor

Bella on her favorite perch

Kind of on the same note  (animals and their prey)............  I watched a crane catch a fish in the pond, throw it up on the grass, watch is flop around a little, and then eat it.  It was cooler than it sounds.

The other "project" that's been keeping us busy is filling up the front porch.  We may have enough seating now.  Between Craig's list, Cracker Barrel, mom and El bringing a rocker we had left behind, and a cute little shop in Cottleville, we've filled up the porch.  (I also painted the front door)  By the way, if you want to chck out earlier pictures of the stairs and the porch check out the post on Apr 9th.

So.................. everyone should come on down and hang out on our porch for a while. See ya soon.