Timberline Homestead A self sufficient homesteading life

We are nearing the end of March and now have blooming naturalizing daffodils and grape hyacinths! The daffodils and hyacinths began popping up a few weeks ago and bloomed earlier this week. The deer have feasted on the hyacinth foliage as well as the tulips which I’ll post  in a …

Just shy of 4 weeks since planting and I have blooms!

The country living grain mill is like the grand daddy of all grain mills and if dropped onto most every other one would literally CRUSH IT! We had always wanted to make our own flour so that we could have the freshest bread and a grain mill seemed like the …

The largest repair the house needed as soon as we purchased it was a roof! With winter only a month away it was a must. As you can see from this picture the gutters were falling off, and shingles were missing.

About 10 days ago I planted some PaperWhite Narcissus bulbs to be forced indoors. The original post with details is here.

A lone yellow daffodil that sprouted through the wandering ground cover last spring gave me some motivation to plan a fall bulb flower patch our first fall season living in our house. It is a miraculous site in the gloomy days of early spring when its still too cold to bask in …

While at the local nursery I found some PaperWhite bulbs 50% off and decided it would be a good way to add some life indoors during the dreary winter months. This was a quick project; I just added a layer of pebbles to some pots, added soil, mixed in a …

This is the larger of the 2 bedrooms neither has an attached bathroom. 3 windows, a good sized closet, and very spacious but this room needed a face lift. Before The carpet was stained more places than one could count with cat urine and the walls and doors were beat …

The downstairs bathroom is approximately 35 square feet (not including the shower) of awkwardly configured space. It was hard to get decent shots of the work so bare with me! The before pictures have been misplaced but this room has changed a lot so I’m posting anyway. After Demolition

This room started as a bedroom and now serves as the office. Start to finish pictures..here we go. Before (As mentioned in previous posts these pictures were taken before we closed but after we did some cleaning to spruce it up so the lender would be so kind to finance …

Following the living room progress start to finish. This room didn’t have as many dramatic changes as some of the others but what a difference the smaller touches made! Before Pictures (For those who haven’t read the other room posts, these before pictures were taken before we closed but after …

We get quite a few visitors at our hummingbird feeder on the deck and have some pictures to share. This feeder is hanging on a post on the corner of the deck close to the Japanese Maple and some taller pines where the hummingbirds like to gather.

Up to this point we’ve shared some of the nitty gritty demolition pictures of various parts of the house. This is chronicling the remodel of the kitchen from start to finish. Before the demolition began. (As mentioned in a previous post these pictures were taken before we closed but after …

Moving into a house with a septic system made us much more aware of what goes down our drains. This was a perfect reason to get away from using the harsh chemicals we were accustomed to. Getting over the impulse to reach for typical scrubs, sprays and liquid cleaners containing bleach every time I …

To keep our canned goods rotating we’ve set up a Shelf Reliance Cansolidator Harvest 72″ unit. This unit holds up to 600 cans although we don’t have ours filled to the maximum capacity. It’s actually pretty empty at the time this picture was taken. Assembly took about 2 hours and …