Sunny Mother's Day

Nature's resilience, a pansy emerges from the gravel driveway.

New geraniums in the sunshine.  

AO did more brickwork under the new kitchen window.

HK tidied up the new bamboo bed. 

Garden path has been tidied up.

Honey bees on the apple blossom.

Drywall Boarding is Complete!!

Looking down the hallway towards the great room.

Looking through the hallway window into the bathroom.

The kitchen with the sun shining through the skylights and windows.

Looking down the stairs from inside the guest bathroom.

Drywalling Begins

Future kitchen with drywalled ceiling and first wall

View down hallway towards octagon.

View down hallway towards great room

Ensuite bathroom ceiling completed

Earth Day Celebrations and Reno Work

Doronicum and Primrose in bloom

Osprey soaring overhead

Frodo enjoying the afternoon sunshine

The greenhouse successes
Benary's giant zinnias are ready for their first transplantation

HK never stops :) The brown board has been added to the hallway leading up to the tower.

HK adds the trim around the kitchen window so I can get ready for brickwork.

I've added the hardware cloth with lots of galvanized ring nails around the kitchen window. Next weekend will come the scratch coat and perhaps the first bricks.

The half timbers were painted this afternoon!

HK has been working on the dining room window also to get ready for half timbering.

More Reno Progress and Spring is Here

A bouquet of spring flowers.

Daffodils are out and sharing their brilliance with the world.

A rather large garter snake is in the garden eating lots of bugs.

The sassy red squirrel is yelling at everyone.

Last year we took cuttings from a periwinkle; this spring they are already in bloom and spreading around the new plantings.

Henrik is adding DonnaConna board on many of the new walls for sound damping.

The wall under the kitchen window is ready to receive the scratch coat.  The worker man can be seen inside.

The hallway wall of the new guest bedroom will have a series of glass panes at the top, to allow light from the skylight to get into the hallway.

The view down the hallway to the great room .

The Christmas bat boxes after their first coat of paint.
They will be ready to install after one more coat.

Completion of Insulation and Vapour Barrier

The Ensuite Bathroom

The Kitchen Viewed from the Great Room

The Guest Bedroom.
It's very hard to photograph this room; I think it will be easier with completed walls and a bed.

First Steps to Brickwork Around the Kitchen Window

The rain screen has been added to the wall in preparation for bricks.  Next weekend I'll add the wire mesh and soon thereafter the scratch coat.  Only after that will we be ready to install the bricks.