Virtual Tour

Andrea posted a virtual tour of the house in our online album. Click on the first image below to see all the images. I’ve been wanting to post some pictures anyway, but now that she did the tour, I have a good excuse

This floor had hard tiles that were all the rage in the late 60′s or early 70′s. Over the last month I’ve removed most of them. The dark area at the back is a section where Meaghan has removed the paper/cardboard underlay that was put under the tiles. The foreground shows what is left of the adhesive & underlay after the tiles are removed. I’m planning on sanding and refinishing the floor (softwood) during the first weekend in July. This will be the second bedroom I’ve done.

The weekend before Mother’s Day, I transplanted 4 roses bushes to in front of the veranda. At the time, the leaves were just beginning to open. The 2 bushes in the middle are a rugosa rose that I split (deliberately) while transplanting it. The outer two are centifolia moss roses. There are 2 more rugosas and 4 more of the centifolia ones on the other side of the step and I have 2 & 4 respectively in large pots. I moved them to pots so that they would be ready to move in the middle of the summer if we were moving households.

A few years ago, I was at the nursery and the nicely arranged flower pots had a price tag of $30 or more. I decided to get a pair of nice pots and make the arrangements myself. Since then, every year, before Mother’s Day, we go and pick out what we are going to put in the pots that year. The 2 images below are the result of this year’s picks. Most of the plants were picked by the girls. On Mother’s Day, Andrea and I decided on the arrangements and transplanted them together. These flank the back door of the house which is the one we normally use to go in and out.