Thanks everyone for the advice! @mclarke No we will not be changing the roof. We will however need to add windows, but nothing that would be visible from the front view of the house. We are not going to do this till our whole landscaping is done... it's going to take forever! @fripper The chairs are from costco online. It comes in a 2 pack and came out to $755 with ca sales tax. Such a good deal. It says delivery is 10-15 days... it came in a day and a half! Sometimes it's on their website and sometimes it goes away. I guess it depends on inventory cuz I eyed these chairs for a month until I got it.

I used Micron black technical pens, and Prisma watercolor markers/pencils. I absolutely love to dabble in all things creative. Gardening included! There's always something to learn and it keeps me both curious and humble. We're supposed to FINALLY get some much-needed warm weather starting tomorrow here in Nashville, TN. I can't wait to get outside and catch up on a few things. My last-remaining hen who the kids named, "Chubby Cheeks," passed away. She was the lone survivor of a coyote attack a few months ago. I recently bought some new chicks at the co-op to raise and keep her company, but I think either illness or loneliness beat us to it. We plan to make some better adjustments to the coop tomorrow when it's warmer, and do all we can to make this next batch of chickens as happy and spoiled rotten as possible. I hope you all have a wonderful evening! Lisa

This is difficult to narrow down. Here goes: Book: "To Kill a Mockingbird". I read it at least once a year. Song: "Till There Was You" , Beatles. DH and I used to sing it to our babies. He would play it on the guitar and we would both sing. Maybe that's why they went to sleep so quickly-to escape our singing! Movie: Dr. Zhivago. On a snowy night DH and I went to see the movie and were only a handful of those who braved the storm to see it. It was in an old theater with the red velvet drapes around the screen. It was a very romantic, memorable date night! History behind Dr. Zhivago

No, I don't think that aesthetics are very important for MOST people. In fact, I think the driving factor in much of human behavior is perceived self worth. I agree. But I think this is much more of an American (and to a lessor extent the English speaking world so also UK & OZ) deal. Good aesthetics (houses, streets, stores, neighborhoods) are a much bigger issue elsewhere as is quality of construction, materials, etc. Similarly, perceived self worth, fakery, seems massively more a thing in the U.S. You see some of it elsewhere but massively less. In The Netherlands and Scandinavia it's almost the complete opposite. Any kind of fakery is massively looked down on. That's not to say that they are against ornamentation though. You need only look at the gables in most of the old cities to see that.