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  • Building The Barn: A Garden Shed Story

    Building The Barn: A Garden Shed Story

    ByKara September 26May 16 Garden, Our Creek House

    Let me tell you about the time I thought I was going to have to convince Zach to let me build a garden shed, and how spectacularly that didn’t go the way I expected. The Setup I had my whole strategy worked out. I was going to tell Zach that we needed a garden shed….

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  • Back to blogging and our new house

    New House, New Garden, New Food!

    ByKara May 11May 16 Garden, Our Creek House

    No apologies for leaving this blog dormant for so long; instead I’m just going to jump right back in with updates and posts. There’s been a lot of change over the last year and it’s time to start documenting and posting and adding the “life” part to this food and life blog. So many things…

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the words "Our Creek House" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Our Creek House

    ByKara January 1June 1 Our Creek House

    A fifty-year-old house on a creek in Johns Creek, Georgia, and our project since 2021. Honest before-and-afters, real budgets, and the receipts on the flipper.

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