Our massive renovation project is chugging along. Plumbing and electrical have been mostly done. My central vacuum (YAY!) is going in, and this past holiday weekend Chris spent installing all the speaker and network wiring. Because we’re doing spray foam insulation, we have to anticipate as much future wiring needs as possible and get it…
Gentlemen of the Road
Last weekend we became a lady and gentleman of the road and hiked it over to Simcoe, Ontario, in Norfolk County, for a music festival called Gentlemen of the Road. Because we opted not to do any camping and because we had to get home to take care of the dog, we drove a good…
The American State Fair experience
As part of our mid-west adventure earlier this month we decided to check out the Wisconsin State Fair on the outskirts of Milwaukee. Neither one of us had ever been to an American state fair before, so we thought it’d be a fun way to spend a day. As soon as we entered the gates…
Go west, young woman
It’s almost 2 years to the day since I posted about our great mid-west beer run to Madison, Wisconsin in preparation for our wedding. In that post I alluded to a harrowing adventure and promised to post about it after the wedding… and then I totally didn’t! The horror! To recap that story, Chris and…
Lacy orchids
One of the big items on my to-do list before we put our whole lives into storage was to take a serious look at my yarn stash and start packaging up yarn, needles and patterns into projects so that I would have lots to keep me busy during the months we wait for our renovations…
The big dig
On our way home from the cottage last weekend we stopped into the new house and low and behold the deck, she was gone! The exterior waterproofing is underway and going very quickly. We were sad to see the awesome huge deck go, but it was a necessary evil, and we’ll be able to build…
Hello there…
Boy, it sure has been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been taking a hiatus from my blog for a while, dealing with life, or rather, uprooting it completely. If I could have planned how this year would have unfolded I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have chosen to take on a major renovation wherein I would…
I don’t know what to put here.
Where do I begin? It has been over a month since I posted. There are quite a few circumstances for why I haven’t been here, including taking possession of a new house, organizing contractors and making living arrangements for the next several months, as well as my grandmother breaking her shoulder in a fall that…
Fresh, locally milled flour
As part of developing my sourdough bread baking skills I wanted to try to find a local source of high quality, fresh wheat flour that was as unaltered as possible. Last fall my Dad was in the hospital in London, Ontario and Chris and I drove there to see him from Toronto. During the drive…
Space Jam
I have a confession to make. I’m totally obsessed with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s absolutely fascinating Twitter feed, where he’s posting phenomenal, incredible photos of our planet taken every day from his unique vantage point at the international space station. As a communications professional, I think Hadfield is single-handedly renewing (at least Canadian) interest in…