Irv and I just bought a Hippie House in Connecticut

After a year of looking for a relatively affordable house near the water in southeastern CT, Irv and I finally closed on the house I call 'The Hippie House'. 

When we first saw it, it had (really, no kidding) 2 turkeys, at least 12 chickens, 1 horse and what seemed like a dozen people living on the property...oh I forgot the 2 pigsty on the front lawn.  The property is not zoned for farming but  the owners were, well, pretty free spirits - she a colon hydrotherapist (which perhaps explains why anything with water is the only thing that works in the house) and he an Austrian bodybuilder stone mason (which is why the house looks European and full of stone work).  But more about that later.  

The house has several out buildings and is located in the Barn Island Wildlife area of Pawcatuck CT (aka mosquito-ville as we have come to realize).   I will be using this site to blog chronicle our journey of taking the house from hippie sad to hippie chic.