Winter Work

Well we are down to the last day of winter and at 7:45 PM tonight it will officially be spring. Here are a few pictures of this last day of winter, and I think it will take all of SPRING to clear this up.

Out the back door, lots of snow.

This is over 7 feet high, from the other side on the ground.

Closing in on the birds.

The east deck, can't see much of the 4 foot fence.

From the veranda down the upper driveway.

The parking area is getting smaller, but not the banks.

Looking down the driveway to the shop past the shed.

From the cars, we used to see the road and fields.

Our narrow driveway.

From the shop to the house.

Not All The Work Is Inside

This has been a busy winter and most of my time has been spent outside moving snow, and as everyone has heard in the news we have gotten a tonne of it. Some day's I don't know where I'm going to put it, we are slowly running out of room. Here is what's left after last nights little dusting. They called for 10 - 20 cm's but I think we got abut 30 cm's, the only good thing is that it's light and easy to move. Today was a long one, it took 6 hours to clear everything, two decks, the front porch, access to the compost and a bit of digging to get to the bird feeders, once committed we have to continue. Take a look.

Looking out the west deck, this pile is 7 ft, from the ground.
Check out the cars and the green house.

A trail for the dog to run.

Still some parking space left, but not much.

Getting out the front driveway.

My main snow mover, give you some perspective with
the snow bank behind it. 

Working my way to the compost, 4 ft thick.

A Little Work

It has been quiet in the house this winter, most of the work is outside with moving snow. A while ago I did get the thresholds done, they all required special attention and each is truly a custom fit. They are small but they do finish this off nicely.

Going into the bathroom.

To the mud room.

Not a threshold but a filler strip at the front door.

A Fresh Look

It's been two years since I painted the place, most of it blue, a few rooms were yellow(ish) and after moving in, moving boxes from room to room, a temp kitchen to a finished one the walls were looking a little tired so I was informed it was time to paint. After a while of looking at a few colours ReBecca came up with this one a cream type colour and after priming the living room, kitchen, dining room and both upper and lower hallways, I painted. And I have to agree it looks good, warm, bright and inviting, an excellent colour. Hopefully I wont' have to do this again for at least 5 years. Here is the after look, you'll have to go back in the blog to about Jan 2013 to see what they were.

South window upstairs.

Top of the stairs.

Front door.

Looking down the hallway.

Living Room.

The other end.

Part of the kitchen and dinning room.

Looking into the dinning room.

In from the front door.

Something For Keta

One of those little projects that needed to be done finally got done. We wanted a raised place for Keta to sleep, off the cool floor, under where she has her bed is the cold room. The legs are from an old mahogany valance from our old place, they may be the same shade as our new chairs, and when they arrive I can adjust the colour if needed.

First time on the bed.

Not too sure.

Perfect fit, she likes it a lot.

Now This Is What You Call A Snow Fall

This started at 5 PM last night and went into the night, turned to ice pellets and now light rain, good morning Searsville. It is very heavy and I have my work cut out for me, I don't know if the snow blower can throw it very far, wait we have a tractor now, not a problem. I just have to  worry about the decks and that's about it. We lost a small tree by the shop and a branch off one of the pines, as well we cut down the grove of trees in the front yard that reached up to the power and phone lines. They alway bothered us and it's a good thing they are gone now.

Lots of it.

There is a squril in that feeder again.

Small Projects

Over the past few days I have been doing little projects, like a new panel in shed so we can get power and lights back on, as well I decided to insulate the basement entrance area. It only had the rigid foam board under the siding and the attic space done, now the walls are done and we can let the the heat from the basement up and use the space as light storage. In the mean time I'll be putting the generator in there so if we lose power I won't have to haul it from the shop up and around the house. This way I just have to shovel a small path to roll it out and then we're ready to go. It will sit on a platform that spans the stairwell and this will roll out to the door and I just have to turn the generator and out the door. It pays off saving about everything we come across.  I say this because have you ever wondered what to do with the old refrigerator rollers we used so we could get them out, well I finally found a use.

A small space.

Now insulated.

Of course both side are done.

The generator platform.

Just have to roll it to the door now.

Squirrel proof bird feeder my &$$.

Round Two

Yesterday was a snow day, of sorts. I still got the last piece of baseboard in and the toe kick covers made, in spite of the snow. It looks like this may be staying for a while, some rain early this week but the temps are low and I don't know if it will wash it away. I like winter but for some reason I'm not ready for this, at least this soon.

New Baseboards

Well the baseboards are in and painted, it has taken a while to get the far, a few things got in the way like taking a trip for our 25th, just say'n. Anyway I've cut, profiled, sanded, primed, painted and installed about 110 liner feet of 8 inch baseboard and the same for the ¾inch quarter round, since the doors were framed and trimmed out. Since Thursday I filled the nail holes, closed up some gaps with silicon to hide the imperfections of the wall's, wood and maybe, just maybe my work. Then they were sanded, primed, and painted. Along with all the existing window and door frames, to clean up them up because since they were installed a year and a half ago we've added heat to the house and over the past year the wood has dried out some, so they needed attention. And we finally painted the front door, what a difference.

The door before.

Much better.

Looking into the house.

In the hall.

The other side of the hallway.

The dining room.

By the kitchen.

Sides of the fridge.

Living room.

The only the part of the living room you can see.

The First Dusting

The white stuff came early this year, and the good thing is it didn't stay. When the Nor'easter came through we only go a little snow, compared to central and norther NB, they got much more. It looks nice and like I said it was gone within a day.