Posted in Vacation Photos, Weather, travel on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We made our traditional trek up to my brother Gus’s cottage at Lake Rosseau. Last year JT went golfing, this year it snowed!
Sudden snow storm across the lake.
Of course, I am bundled up like a snowman, and the kids barely have a sweater on! It was quite chilly, no really!
A nice afternoon walk. No, we [...]
Posted in Renovations, Vacation Photos, Weather on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As an add-on to last night’s post: On the front lawn I put out all the decent sized lumber pieces left over from our project (minimum size 3′ maximum size 5′) hoping that someone with a smaller project would pick them up. Well, during cocktails, a guy pulled up in his sedan and did just [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, Weather on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, Weather, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Vacation Photos, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Decorations, Renovations, Vacation Photos, tagged Cocktail Lounge, Deck, Pain on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Vacation Photos, travel on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary in the Big Apple and it was lovely. We drove to Buffalo Tuesday morning and caught a very inexpensive flight to JFK ($270 Can for the two of us). The weather was amazing mid to high 20°C (which was a bit warm). We arrived on Tuesday May [...]
