I Never Promised You an Organic Garden » house http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog and other things you won't expect... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:46:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Mystery Solved http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/mystery-solved/ http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/mystery-solved/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:16:20 +0000 Becky McKimmy http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/?p=130 For those you who following along regularly, you will remember Matt and I received a package with spandex biking clothes in the mail from china a few months ago.  Neither of us had ordered the clothes, and honestly neither of us have use for spandex biking clothes.  It seemed that it would always remain a mystery where the clothes came from, but this week I received an email that cleared everything up.

The family that owned our house before us had ordered the outfit on ebay and forgot to change their shipping address, hence they came to us.  The clothes have now been returned to their rightful owner and all is well.

Mystery Solved!

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]]> http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/mystery-solved/feed/ 0 Curtains or wall hanging… you decide http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/curtains-or-wall-hanging-you-decide/ http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/curtains-or-wall-hanging-you-decide/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:07:24 +0000 Becky McKimmy http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/?p=127 Matt and I completed a home improvement / decorating project this weekend that we have been planning to do for some time now.  We setup a  curtain system on in our dining room.  We have a sliding glass doors at the back of our house, and while it is beautiful to look out of, at dinner time the light coming in the door is blinding.  So to reduce the  light and create a decorative wall hanging, we put up a curtain system from Ikea.

The systems consists of three sheer decorative panels that are attached to three tracks that run the length of our dining room wall.  If we want to use the panels to block the sun, we simply pull them in front of the sliding glass doors where they block the bright light but still allow you to see bits and pieces of the outside.  When they are not being used to block the sun, which is most of the time, they hang in front of our large purple wall next to the sliding doors and act as a decoration.

We are both quite pleased with the final product and enjoy the unique yet practical solution for our light blocking and decorative needs.  Setup of the curtains was relatively easy and only took Matt and I a couple of hours ( and we didn’t even have a fight).  The panels themselves came in 10ft rolls that we cut to the right length and secured to the tracks using panel mounting hardware that allows them to slide.

Our only question now is what length to leave the panels. We currently have them all the same length reaching about four inches from the floor.  This works great when the panels are in front of the door; however, we have baseboard heat, and the panels now hang in front of one of our heaters, and we are concerned this may be a fire hazard once we start using the heat again.  One solution is to shorten the panels so they are all above the heater but at varying lengths.  We think this would have a cool visual effect while still providing plenty of coverage on our sliding door.

What do you think?

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]]> http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/curtains-or-wall-hanging-you-decide/feed/ 1 Frozen assets http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/frozen-assets/ http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/frozen-assets/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:55:33 +0000 Becky McKimmy http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/?p=124 I am now the proud owner of a brand new chest freezer. Tuesday Matt and I finally purchased one.  We have been talking about doing it for a few years, but when chickens literally started falling out of our regular freezer, it became obvious it was time.

We purchased a Kenmore 5.0 cu. ft chest freezer from Sears, and it is now happily freezing away in our garage. Our plan is to put the backlog of chickens we have from our CSA, along with any vegetables we can’t eat, in the chest freezer for longer term storage.  We are also hoping to split a side of beef from a local farmer with some friends.

We are very excited about the possiblity of being able to get local meat and vegetables and have access to it in the winter and not just the summer when things are “in season”.

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]]> http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/frozen-assets/feed/ 3 I am back! http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/i-am-back/ http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/i-am-back/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:59:08 +0000 Becky McKimmy http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/?p=110 Well, after a month-long self imposed hiatus, I am back to blogging. Life has been very crazy the past month and something had to give. Unfortunately it turned out to be my blog. If anyone is still paying attention, thanks for your patience.

So what has been going on all this time, you ask? Matt and I have been, and still are, buying a house. Yes that’s right, buying a house. Now I know we said we were going to do the responsible thing and wait a year so we could save up a substantial down payment and then buy a house, but the more we thought about it the more now felt like the right time. It is truly a buyers market, interest rates are they lowest they have been in years and are only going to go up, and we are tired of throwing our money away paying rent.

After looking at what felt like every house in Richmond, we chose a wonderful house in a neighborhood called Hidden Valley. It is a gorgeous area. Very peaceful and private but still with great proximity to work, friends, and everything else life entails.

It has been a learning process to say the least, and we definitely couldn’t have made it this far without help from our very knowledgeable and supportive friends and a good realtor.

Now what you have been waiting for: Photos of the House

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