This blogging thing is new for me but I thought it would be fun to blog about the adventures at my Bed and Breakfast. We just opened Willow Creek Bed and Breakfast last October, 2007. We bought my husbands great grandparents homestead with 10 acres 6 miles East of Fertile, MN. It is a praire home, called a 4 square, built in 1918 by his great grandmother/ a widow left with 11 children. We figure it is a Sears home because of the numbers and things on the back of the boards. We gutted it down to the bare studs, firred out the 2x4's and added R19 insulation, sheetrocked and painted, added all new windows, took all the old wood work out, stripped it and restained and varnished it all. Sanded all the hardwood floors and varnished, put all new windows and wiring in and light fixtures. It is truly a piece of history and just being there makes me happy and filled with joy. We also have an old grainary which we converted into a little store with collectibles and the original one room school house called "Willow Creek" is on the premises, it was moved there about 1960 from across the field. We renovated it back to it's original look and use it for gatherings of any kind. I forgot to mention when we tore off the siding the original was underneath so we were ecstatic, this is a picture while it was being painted, we also laid cement and landscaped around the house, it is beautiful now with the flowers blooming, i will get a picture posted soon about that.
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