Author: Ian

Work on the house has begun. They got almost all the windows in yesterday with the noted exception of the garden doors (to replace the patio doors in the family room). The window manufacturer actually shipped the a door that opens the wrong way, so a new one is on order and is expected to…

Some friends of ours had their second child this weekend, so I thought I would honour the occation with a quick post. None of the regular readers know these people! Congratulations Cathy and Dave! [Edit: Doh! I had posted Carter for his name even though I knoew it was Connor! Dumb, dumb, dumb]

I guess I’d better cut 10 minutes out of my day for an update…unexciting as it is. No work has started. It’s scheduled to begin tomorrow, but with contractors, who knows? I spent the weekend moving log piles that were against the house, throwing out old (largely broken) gardening bits like 2 foot chunks of…

We’ve done it now. Last night we hired a contractor to replace the entire outside of our house: Shingles — Charcoal Grey. Dark but not TOO dark Soffits and Eaves — Also a grey. Shelley would have liked to go right to a black, but it never happened. Siding — A light brown vinyl. Here,…

With Viv asking, I decided I had better post an update to the website: Shelley’s sister is much better and went home yesterday. It would seem that it was “just a viral thing” and is passing. Dylan’s friend in the hospital with pain in his legs is also getting out right away. They determined that…