Our low-slung greenhouse design (a.k.a. Plan B) is still standing and going strong, despite the past few days’ crazy winds! Proof is in the pudding, as they say. Or, in this case, in the germination. But first, a look … Continue reading
Farmers, start your engines! Spring is officially here! And Cockamamy Farm is getting under way, thanks to our fabulous little greenhouse and some crazy-warm temps that have thawed the ground and allowed us to prepare a garden plot. Inside the … Continue reading
We’ve been hinting for a while now, via the Cockamamy Farmer Facebook page and Instagram feed, about a big palette project we’re working on. Well, ladies and germs, it is time for the big reveal! Nope, not a fence (as … Continue reading
Since day one, we’ve been talking and daydreaming about outbuildings on the farm—a barn to replace our pile-of-barn (or POB as a friend recently called it), a workshop for Ben so he can move off the back deck and into … Continue reading
The additions of storage and organization in our hardest-working room, the pantry/laundry, continue with a trio of IKEA‘s Billy Bookcases. But, in our ever-cockamamay way, we didn’t use the pieces with their intended purpose. Instead, we performed an IKEA furniture … Continue reading
The last few weeks, Ben and I have been working on the pantry/laundry room. We have covered the walls and ceiling in bead board panels, and installed shelf brackets with pine planks as floating shelves on the wall above our … Continue reading
As with any house that has been lived in by elderly folks for decades upon decades, we inherited some really choice window treatments. Old, stained lace valances, some lovely sheer drapes with green leaves and vines printed on them (touching … Continue reading
The phrase “in progress” or even “under construction” are good descriptors for our kitchen space. Many things have changed—we moved the sink to a different wall and demolished an entire wall of the room—but some things remain the same—we are … Continue reading
Waaaaayyyyy back in, well, summer, I fell in love with these gorgeous drapery panels from West Elm. They were on sale and I snapped up enough to dress all the first floor windows in the farm house. The color and … Continue reading
Cockamamy Farm is a victim of this crazy polar vortex the weather folks are calling “Winter Storm Gorgon.” We were blanketed with several inches of snow and now temps are down right scary. The high today is below zero. Fahrenheit. … Continue reading
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