A few hours with climbing gear and a sawzall and we’ve trimmed back the hundred year old horse chestnut in the northwest corner of the yard, removing and limbs that were threatening the main house and the tiny house site, and opening up our solar window for our hot water system. x Liz _...
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Buried treasure
It’s always interesting digging in a hundred-plus-year-old city lot. While working on the fence and leveling the yard for the tiny house, I uncovered this rusty tin holding a crow skull packed in salt. Exactly my brand of creepy, and just one of the many, many curiosities unearthed on this property.x Liz _Follow along...
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A new fence
Sadly, I snapped almost no photos of our fence rebuild. The north side of the property sorely needed to be addressed before we park the trailer based in the northwest corner. We took advantage of a sunny window to put up a new cedar fence with panels that can be easily removed for a...
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Tree trimming + site prep
Getting the yard ready for the tiny house build has meant a lot of tree trimming – we’ll be nestling our trailer under a hundred-year old chestnut tree, and wanted to take the opportunity while the land is still clear to trim any branches that will interfere with our solar window or be potential...
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