We are new to the world of blogging- at least creating one. Olivia is certainly the go getter out of the two of us and is always looking for a way to stay active and busy. She has followed many others through their stories-those of parenting, home renovation, cooking, and hobby farming to name a few areas of interest. We’ve had varying degrees of success in most of those arenas and Olivia has plenty of experience from her childhood with all things hobby farm.
Even though we have done a lot over the last eight years, we never really thought that people would want to follow our story beyond family and close friends– until we decided to sell our renovated ramblin’ ranch. Olivia would often post photos of before and after (and sometimes even the after-after when we figured out how to do it better) of the work we did in our home (check out the “Before Byrd Rd” section to see some of those projects). Many of the friends that she had stayed in regular contact with would ask “how would you paint this” or “what color tile backsplash would you do here?” and even “do you think we could knock down this wall to open up this space?” We would share our sagely wisdom gained from all the DIY gone from wrong to right—you know the saying that you learn more from mistakes than success, well after that house, we started out as Tim Taylor and turned into Bob Villa.
So while we knew there were some that followed closely and would make comments and ask questions, silently many friends from college and beyond had been watching the ugly duckling slowly transform into the moderately attractive goose of a home. When Olivia announced that goose was for sale (we were hoping that it would at least lay a bronze egg for us, knowing it wasn’t quite gold laying material), many of the followers reached out to ask if we were crazy? We finally finished years of renovating a house with toddlers underfoot and now we’ve sold and moved on to the next adventure. We just may be a little crazy, but you have to follow along and be the judge of that.