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Apr 7, 2019
1 min

Garden Update

Spring has finally arrived and I just moved our plants out to the patio. Last year I lost about 2/3s of my plants because of wind so this...

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Mar 8, 2019
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Growing season approaches

We have had many gardens over the years and last year was the first one on the new property. I have already gotten start this year...

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Mar 8, 2019
1 min

Orchids and Air Plants

I posted a few months ago some pictures of 2 orchids that we already owned. Both of which are going through their dormant phase right...

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Mar 8, 2019
1 min

New Stools from RH

We were not in the market for new bar stools but when we saw these at RH outlet we had a pretty good feeling that they would be a perfect...

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Feb 17, 2019
1 min

What could go better with wine than...bourbon!?

If you have not hit upon this trend yet you need to jump right in. On one of our, regular enough, wine stock up trips we went to our...

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Feb 17, 2019
1 min

Demo Day - Bathroom

I admit that this video is a little plain, considering it has no music or narration to speak of. We are still working out how and what we...

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Jan 23, 2019
3 min

Recent Projects

I'm sure a lot of you can relate to having projects that you want to complete around the house. Fortunately, both Robert and I had a few...

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Dec 23, 2018
1 min

Who don't like cake?

To be honest I am not a sweets person. I do have a problem craving salt but I have never been a sugarholic. Now I do love working with...

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Dec 23, 2018
2 min

What will this blog be about?

The reason we started this blog is that our friends and family are always asking us “what are we up to” “what are we doing”. Knowing that...

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Dec 8, 2018
1 min

The lights of Christmas Past

We recently shared these videos with friend and it got me thinking we might as well write a post on subject. You may not already know...

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Nov 19, 2018
1 min

Our little boat

Right after we bought the property we investing in a little paddle boat. Now as you can see below we first took it out, at the old house,...

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Oct 17, 2018
1 min

Our menagerie

Below are some of our fellow inhabitants at Elmdale Estate. I would never have guessed that I would someday get to live this close this...

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Oct 7, 2018
1 min

Bread Pudding Recipe

INGREDIENTS 1 package Sweet Dinner Rolls, 24oz 1 cup Milk 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream 1/4 cup White Sugar 1/4 cup Brown Sugar 4 Large Eggs...

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Oct 7, 2018
1 min

Getting ready for the photo shoot

Decided to take a walk on the property the other day, just before the sun went down. Wanted to get some initial photos to review with our...

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Sep 20, 2018
1 min

Recent Purchase

Happy to be back. We just returned from vacation and will be posting some images and videos later. Before we left we decided to invest in...

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Aug 26, 2018
1 min

Choosing Chocolate

Did you know that Elm Springs Arkansas has its own chocolate factory? KYYA, a boutique confectioner specializing in “bean to bar” and...

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Aug 26, 2018
1 min

New 360 videos!

Below are the first footage examples from our new GoPro Fusion camera. Planning to take the camera with us on our upcoming vacation to...

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Aug 18, 2018
1 min

The General a.k.a. piggy

One of our more notably pets is a 350 lb Vietnamese potbellied pig named General Douglas MacArthur aka Piggy. We have had piggy going on...

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Aug 18, 2018
1 min

Robert's new toy...dozer blade

We have been getting a lot of really good topsoil lately and after a few attempts at trying to spread it around by using the tracker and...

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Aug 17, 2018
2 min

Reminding people to stay off your land

Something we did not anticipate when purchasing our land was the amount of people that would assume that it was okay to drive down to the...

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