Haphazard Homestead

Maybe I'm just strange, but as soon as Christmas is over and the holiday decorations are put away, I'm itchin' to start spring c...

Here's a tableau I saw once in a flea market and recreated here at home. It's an old step-ladder adorned with ...

Let's see if I can "Frankenstein" $10 worth of thrift store clothes into a big freakin' mess Halloween costume for Kat.  ...

You might remember this post , where I talked about how we'd keep our ugly, old gas range until it quit working.  If you follow Haphazar...

It's garage sale season!  With the mild winter we had, they never really went away -- there were usually 1 or 2 to be found most weekend...

Kat has spring break this week, and I mentioned last week that Shane is also off until some constructions job start up, so the whole gang wi...

Like Goldilocks, sometimes you have to figure out what's "just right".  Shane said he wanted to work on something, but didn...

Look! A Saturday post! This won't happen often, but I wanted to post about our rain catchment set-up so I could link it to a thread on ...

Thanks to rain on Friday, Shane had another three-day weekend.  He spent part of his day off in the doctor's office, though, getting med...

Clutter. This is a room in our house.  It doesn't have a theme, or a color scheme, and it's often a victim of neglect.  Except ...

Last week I wrote about our decision to NOT replace a part on our kitchen stove .  In the comments the conversation turned to repairing inst...