Meanwhile...Back at the Ranch.

Well we'd messed about a bit at the new house, but nothing so impressive as to make it to the blog.  But then we were contacted by the NC DOT.  It seems they are building a railroad bridge close to the house we live in right now.  After our property was surveyed, sized-up, and staked off, they informed us that they will be purchasing our entire house and property, AND tearing it down!  We certainly don't want to live here, but we hate to see it completely razed.  It was constructed around 1890 as part of a local boarding school and housed a professor Cobb.  It creaks a bit, and if you drop something it may roll to either one side of the house or the other, but it has character and has survived for over 100 years.  Sad to think it won't go to a family who would appreciate all of the hard work put in to remodeling the entire house!  But, on the up-side, since we will have around 75 days to pack up and move out, we have to finish the bungalow ASAP.

Here is a bit of the wrap-around porch on our current house.  Please ignore the cow. (It lives somewhere else now.)