All posts by Martha Goodliffe

Martha.

The quest continues

The quest continues – with the Top 100 Birders in the US.  How far can he go?  How high will he climb?

He broke into the top 50 at number 49 with 372 birds.  Now at 376 birds he has climbed to the number 47 spot.

Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Biggest Week in Birding!

🙂

Donald Goodliffe - 47 with 376 birds. 5/12/2016
Donald Goodliffe – 47 with 376 birds. 5/12/2016
Donald Goodliffe - 49 and climbing!
Donald Goodliffe – 49 and climbing!
Donald Goodliffe - 49 with 372 birds.  05/11/2016
Donald Goodliffe – 49 with 372 birds. 05/11/2016

Graduation!

Meagan Elizabeth Dawn Goodliffe

Mercer University – School of Medicine – Marriage and Family Therapy

Meagan,

You have worked so hard the past two years, embracing graduate school, two internships, developing a group for the Mercer clinic and so much more.

We are so proud of you!

Some pictures from the special day!

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Mercer University School of Medicine Commencement 2016
Mercer University School of Medicine Commencement 2016

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Big Smiles
Big Smiles

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Our esteemed Phi Kappa Phi members
Our esteemed Phi Kappa Phi members

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Music Midtown 2015

Sep 18-19 2015

Matt, Martha, Meagan, Morgan with friends Amanda and Tino, Maggie, Caroline.

VIP tickets are the way to go!

The W Atlanta – Midtown provided a great place to stay.

I have never seen Elton John perform live, and this was certainly the highlight of the weekend.  What an incredible artist, musician, performer.

Other amazing performances included Billy Idol, Tove Lo, Elle King, X Ambassadors, and Sam Smith.

Van Halen – major disappointment.

Blooms, Birds, Bostons, and Berries

I have no idea - but it's pretty
I have no idea – but it’s pretty
All Wet
All Wet
Frog Hunter Extraordinaire!
Frog Hunter Extraordinaire!
My favorite Color
My favorite Color
I like fish (Kingfisher)
I like fish (Kingfisher)
I see something
I see something
I think it's an Alligator
I think it’s an Alligator
Tons of Blackberries (not all shown in this picture)
Tons of Blackberries (not all shown in this picture)
Guineas!
Guineas!
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Here Chicky Chicky
Here Chicky Chicky
Flock of Birds
Flock of Birds
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Day Lilly
Mountain Laurel Bloom
Mountain Laurel Bloom
Mountain Laurel in Bloom - June 2015
Mountain Laurel in Bloom – June 2015

Barn House… NOT

Update 9/23/2015

Long overdue update.  No Barn House.  🙁

Our work with Appalachian Contractors and Hank Spiker not good and we have made the difficult decision to go a different direction and start over with someone new.

While there will be no Barn House – there will be a Farm House 2.

Barn House page has been.

I don’t know why, but I felt compelled to keep the original text, although I currently find incredibly depressing.  It is a reminder of how excited and hopeful we were about this project once upon a time.

Everything works out the way it is supposed to.

We have already started working on Farm House 2 and things are going well, but that is a topic for a different post.

TTFN

ORIGINAL BARN HOUSE PAGE

Barn House.

You might be wondering – what is it and why would you build such a thing.

  • Barns are pretty cool.
  • We need a Barn for the Tractors and stuff.
  • We need a place to live.

Solution:  Barn House.   Barn on the lower level with living space on the second floor.

It’s really very practical.  Rather than building a barn and building a house big enough for us to work from, have room for the girls, and guests.  This way we leverage the existing home and the infrastructure that’s already in place here.

  • Barn House  (Barn and Living Space)
  • Renovated Farm House (Offices and Guest Space).

We have some ideas, but will have to meet with an Architect to draw up plans that the builder can work from and those may drive big changes to our ideas.

But at least we walked the site with our contractor and he thinks it will work.

Yay!

 

Construction Documents

The final design is here:

The updated design drawing here is not quite final, but it has nice color pictures that the Construction documents do not have:

Goodliffe Updated Design Drawings – pdfs 12 sheets 123014&011415

Unless we have any more changes – this is what they are going to build us.  It’s broken into 2 separate files so they could e-mail it to us.

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Goodliffe Final Coordination Set 031215 Sheets 6-14