Tuesday, 24 April 2012

OUR DAUGHTER'S FLOORS ARE FINISHED

Our Daughter's floors are finally all finished.  Just need all the base boards put back. 








So, it’s on with the construction  of our Captain’s Seat for the boat.  We are doing that out at Jack Watt's great woodworking shop.  We want to get it finished by the end of April so we can take it out to the boat, when we start going out there every weekend throughout May.  Once out there, it will still need to be varnished and upholstered. 

Friday, 20 April 2012

OUR PUPPY GETS A TRIM & A BATH

We gave our Sea-Enna her first trim yesterday.  She has had many baths and swims in her life thus far, but we have never trimmed all her "plumage".  We were going to send her to a groomer, but they all said they had to keep her for half a day.  We have never left her anywhere and we thought it would upset her to much so we got out the clippers and did it ourselves. 


Now that she has had her spring bath and she smells so nice, she can get up on the bed and watch TV with Dad.  Which she loves, but  knows it's a privilege that is only allowed sometimes.  She doesn't understand this "smells nice thing".  To her all things no matter how odorous or rank "smell nice", to her. 

We are off to Jack Watt's shop to work on our new Captain's seat for the boat.  That is this springs major project.  Then of course the regular maintenance, but that doesn't start until May.  We still have to finish Tracy's floors.  This weekend we start the bathroom. 


Sunday, 15 April 2012

RELAXATION AND TAX TIME

The hardwood floors are all but done and we are having a relaxing Sunday watching all of the Titanic stuff that comes our way, and of course getting those darn taxes done.  As Canadians we don't have to have ours done until the end of the month unlike my Winter Texas friends that have today as a deadline.  Good Luck with that. 

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

A LONG WEEKEND OF WORK

After a lot of hard work and calculations, The hardwood floors are almost finished.  It was a long, long weekend of hard work for Dan & Ken. 
That's the Living room, Dining room,  Rear entry, Kitchen, Spare Bedroom, all completed.  Without a single transition break. 
  Now all that is left to do, are the two main Bedrooms.  That is this coming weekends chore.  The whole house will look like one big floor, without a single break.  Then the following weekend it's onto the Bathroom, slate tile.  

Sunday, 8 April 2012

BACK INTO OUR REGULAR ROUTINE

You can sure tell we are back to our regular routine, as this entire Easter weekend Dan & I and our son Ken have been over at our Daughter Tracy Elizabeth's installing her new hardwood floors thoughout the house.  The sub floor is down and Ken has the hardwood all cut and laid out half way across.  We should be able to finish this weekend.  He sure  does great precision work.  Final Pictures to follow when it's done.  We've always got projects going on and we have to finish this one before we start going out to work on the boat. 

Saturday, 31 March 2012

HAVING TROUBLE LEAVING COMMENTS?

Just a quick note for anyone that is having trouble leaving a comment on my Blog. I'm told, you need to sign up for a google account first in order to comment. Once you have a google account, you select that as your profile and you can comment. Hope this helps. 

DOWN SOUTH IS OVER, UP NORTH IS ON

Yesterday we went out to the old aircraft hangars where our boat is stored for the winter.  It's an indoor heated facility where we can come out for the weekend work on and sleep on, the boat.  The building has washrooms, showers, a galley and a lounge for the boaters use. 









This is a view from our rear deck.  The boats are all packed in and waiting to be prepped for launch.  It is certainly nice to have a place (out of the weather) where you can work on your boat every spring weekend. 










As I step into my Galley, I get that welcome home feeling and am anxious to get started on this years boating season.  But, Dan reminds me that this trip is only to drop off stuff we brought home from the US and not a working weekend.  Besides I have to hunt down and buy a used commercial sewing machine so that I can do some canvas work this year.