Halloweeny

Halloween was a bit of a bust this year; we could barely give away our pack of 70 candies. Near the end we were just pouring them into the bags. The weather wasn’t great either (wind warnings and chilly) and to top it all off, we actually had a black out for about an hour [...]

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The harvest and my craft

Here are a few shots of our lovely tomato harvests…we are getting about 5-10 every couple of days. Although entirely home grown organically, I am rather disappointed in the lack luster taste, they are OK but not great.
My Craft. We had this old window which used to be a mirror in our house at The [...]

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Build Day 6 – The Home StretchMo

Today is Canada Day, therefore everthing is closed (thank goodness we stocked up from The Depot, the LCBO and Metro!).  We got off to a great start and skirted the back of the deck. By 12:30ish we had the arbour up and capped. Lunch was a tasty wrap and a tower of tomatoes and buffalo [...]

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Build Day 5 – Will it ever stop?

The morning started out to be quite sunny. But clouds did manage to float in and we had a few minor showers, which didn’t stop us from working.
We got most of the uprights put up, ready for the lattice and we got the bottom box made for the steps from the sliding doors off the [...]

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Build Day 4 – Rain, rain go away…

Paul and T are on vacation and they are in Hawaii. What the heck was I thinking that on MY vacation I would build a deck? There is not one muscle in my whole entire being that is not screeming and writhing with pain. Hawaii? Pain? Hawaii? Pain? Oh ma goh!
Today we got off to [...]

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Build Day 3 – Mother Nature Hates Us

We started off OK at 9ish, but very overcast. We made a rookie error which cost about an hour and $20 but really 5.5 hours because it started teaming rain! And, of course, Trip #3 to Home Depot.
Rain, rain and more rain. At around 2:30 the rain stopped and we immediately got back into it.
We [...]

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Build Day 2 – The House Fights Back

I am just getting too old for this type of sillyness! OHHHH my aching back.
To say Build Day 2 got off to a slow start is an understatement. Not for a lack to trying. One challenge after another. I won’t bore you with them, but suffice to say that we made our 2nd run to [...]

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Build Day 1 – Let the Festivities Begin!

We decided to get as much pre deck work done during the week as possible to allow for concentrated deck building during my time off.
Tuesday June 23 – Demo Day 1 (actually it was evening): Remove overgrown shrubs. Now THAT is manual labour. The root ball of one overgrown evergreen shrub was intensely embedded into [...]

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The New Cocktail Deck June 2009

When we decided to add onto our kitchen, we knew we had to give up our lovely cocktail deck JT and I built about a year or two after we moved into our home. But we had bigger plans! A new, bigger, better cocktail lounge to replace a semi useless, puney little deck off the [...]

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A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

My Pantry Storage Dilemma
The kitchen is about 2 year’s old now (that is unbelievable) and I’ve been struggling with dry goods storage in my pantry and my baking drawers. I hate irregular packaging that make things look messy and unkept; I really like things squared and ordered.
This past weekend, I found the greatest glass jars [...]

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