Before It Was "Old" Grace Church

Bill and I are the third post-church owners of "Old Grace Church". First, was Mark and then Mike & Jen. We were curious about what the place had looked like back when it was still a church and Bill had run across some of Mark's photos online. So, Bill went about tracking Mark down (successfully) and asked Mark if he had any photos he would be willing to share. Sure enough, he did. So here are a few shots of what the place looked like when it was still Grace Church.

[I think it was May or June when Mark sent these photos to Bill, but putting this post right after the New House posts, seemed like the right order to me.]

Here's an outside shot. You can see the "Grace Church" sign hanging alongside the front door. The parking lot was on the "south" side, between the church and the road. You can just make out the stained glass windows which were moved over to the new church.

Snow at the New House

It snowed the other day and Bill went over to our new house and took photos.

New House

[I've decided to re-date a number of posts to put them closer in time to when they happened, when I took the photos and/or when I thought about posting. I wrote this one in May, but since we closed on December 31, I've dated this one in January.]

OK, the main reason why I've been so delinquent in my posts is that Bill and I bought a new house. We closed at the end of last year, made a small change in the kitchen and completely moved over from the old house in April. Here are a few shots of the new place. These are from the real estate listing, so it's what the place looked like before we moved in.

Our new house is actually an old church. Bill describes it as a church with an efficiency apartment attached. The section under the larger roof is one big room. (The "nave" when it was a church.) The section under the smaller roof (on the right side of this photo) is the "efficiency apartment".

I Still Need a Hat

Back in December, I was working on a hat - for myself - and wrote several posts about it (starting out and working the cross stitch without a cable needle version 1 and version 2). Also back in December - while I was putting the finishing touches on the hat - Bill & I traveled to Augusta, Georgia to visit my parents and my sister Jeanne.

Jeanne thought the hat was cute and I thought the hat looked good on her. Here she is sitting on my parent's front porch wearing the prototype Moss and Cross Hat.

As noted in my initial "I Need a Hat" post, the hat is knit from the top down. (I hadn't figured out exactly what I wanted to do, so I started at the top and figured I'd try it on as I knit.)