Sadie's Old House

It’s getting real! ? Sanding hardwoods in two bedrooms and a hallway for refinishing in our 1961 ranch house in Southaven. Hopefully, we can finish this place up soon.. I'm so ready to list it! When we get done, I...

Here's a few mixed media paintings I worked on this year: Dogfight - Mixed Media On Wood Panel Cradle - 9" x 11" x 2"Dogfight - Mixed Media On Wood Panel Cradle - 9" x 11" x 2" Calla -...

Dinner at ACME Oyster Bar: it started raining when we went in. It was lightly raining when we came out. It was only about 10 blocks back to our hotel so we decided to don a couple of ponchos and...

Removing old mastic glue and chunks of old parquet flooring from the slab with an air chisel before installing new laminated floor in the den in our 1961 ranch house in Southaven. Ugh! Quite a chore! If you can get...

Filling a gap in hardwood floors between two rooms where I removed a wall 30 years ago. Back then, I filled it with 1" x 4" planks and covered it with carpet, but now it's time to refinish these floors...

My pet wasp is peeking above the citronella candle at me. I never knew I wanted a pet wasp but she moved into the pipes of my deck chair and we hit it off. Apparently, she was looking for a...

I've got 28 tomato plants: The row on far right is 3 different varieties of heirlooms I started from some old seed I had on hand. Glad they germinated, but I still lost about half in the seedling stage. I've...

Setting fire to metal and beating the crap out of it today, for components of a piece, I hope will be in an art exhibit. The only documented nesting of the Willow Flycatcher in Mississippi occurs at Coldwater River National...

Gold Finches are visiting. There were two pair trying to eat at feeder, along with house finch, cardinals, and a junco all at one time. I couldn’t manage to get them all in a single picture....

Working on our 1961 ranch house in Southaven today. This floor in my old office/Clayton’s old bedroom/Ashley’s old bedroom has been setting for over 40 years, under at least two versions of ugly carpet. ? There was some 40 year...