You are listening to episode 21 of the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast.

Little Daniel let me lay him down so he's I'm staring at him. He's there on the floor

and he's giggling every once in a while and hopefully going to let me do this because he doesn't usually we'll see but in this episode I am going to talk about why we decided to buy an old house, some of the questions that I get about

buying an old house and some of the safety concerns, and what to look for if you are thinking about purchasing an old house.

And then make sure to stay all the way to the end because I just started a new segment,

this is the first episode that I'm doing it, where I answer a random question from

Instagram. My name is Lisa, a mom of six and creator of the blog and YouTube

channel Farm House on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home

from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way. So we

just moved into our 1890s farmhouse a little over a year ago. It was January of 2019. It is now February of 2020. And before we lived in this 130 year old house, we lived in a nearly 100 year old house that was built in the 1920s.

And I also grew up in a 100 year old farmhouse. So I'm pretty familiar with living in old houses and I have a

thing or two to share. When I was a kid, my dad burned down our old farmhouse.

Now the reason for that is just like with houses today,

there are nice old houses and there are not nice houses. The one I grew up in, I lived there

till I was 14 before my dad burned it down and built a new house so I can't

remember a lot to me it was just home it was fine but here's a story to kind

of illustrate a little bit about the house. One time my mom went to check the

Christmas tree water and we were all sitting in the living room and she went over and it was actually frozen.

So that tells you a little bit about the insulation quality in that old house. Now it did not have a

electric furnace. My dad had to heat it with wood which we've always heated with

wood. My dad still heats with wood, but there wasn't even a backup. It was

exclusively wood. So whenever we left for a vacation, if it was in the wintertime, we'd

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