At Home on Ladybug Farm / Donna Ball / 344 pages

Three women who are lifelong friends leave their comfortable lives to embark on a new adventure together...rehabbing a 100 year old estate in Virginia.  Each of the women has a special talent to contribute:  rehabbing, art, & cooking.  They learn new skills, survive financial crisis, make friends in a small town, discover things about themselves and develop new ways to make their vision work.  They are so industrious and accomplish so much in a few hours that you feel guilty sitting down and reading when you should be building a chicken coop, planting a garden, cleaning out & restoring fountains & reflecting pools, tearing down walls, refinishing heart of pine hardwood floors, rebuilding a barn and saving a teenage boy who is brilliant and talented but has had a sucky life.  Women's fiction through and through.