The Yellow Cottage Homestead has been sold, and the sale has now closed. With it closes another chapter of our lives, as we prepare to begin the next one, touring the country full-time in a luxury motorhome. Follow the new Sinclair Trails blog to see pictures and information from our new adventure.

With the closing of the house, I am also closing down this blog. It will remain permanently for future reference, but I don’t plan any further posts after this one. (Of course, I may decide to follow up later, so you never know.)

I thought I’d conclude this blog with a guided tour around the homestead.

Let’s start from the logical place, the driveway into the property:

The front lawn and house:

Going around the back; the deck, gazebo, and gardens, with a glimpse of the swimming pool:

Looking to the right, the upper falls pond:

Continuing on down the path, looking back at the house, deck, gazebo, and bird feeders off to the right:

Nearby, the stream leading from the upper falls, and one of its two stone bridges:

After crossing the bridge, looking over the stream towards the cat house:

Further down the path, the small pond, and cat house:

A closer look at the cat house:

The nearby fountain garden:

Behind the fountain garden are flowerbeds:

The white gazebo:

A peek back at the gazebo through the arbor into the field:

Apple trees in the field:

Arbor and the pond deck:

On the pond deck, with a view of the pond:

A view from the pond deck of the ducks coming to see me:

From below the pond deck:

Over the other side of the pond, with the duck house, and the pond deck in the background:

Ducks in the pond:

A weeping willow by the path from the duck house:

Standing at the end of the duck house path, looking at the brown gazebo and chicken coop:

The new and old chicken coops across the back lawn:

Chickens in their run:

Beyond the chicken runs, the veggie garden:

The berry cage part of the veggie garden:

The greenhouse behind the berry cage:

The hoop house next to the veggie garden:

Beyond the greenhouse and hoop house, the beehives and bee shed:

Near the beehives:

I hope you enjoyed this tour of the homestead, and the many blog posts over the years. Thank you for reading, and all the nice comments.

Feel free to follow my personal posts on my Dejus blog, and the new Sinclair Trails blog of our RV adventures.