We seem to have been less active of late from a travel and discovery point of view but…truthfully we have probably been more active but with more domestic tasks.
Our first Alberta winter has seen a variety of weather systems and fairly consistent snow. We had the big fluffy blanket of snow. Chinooks blowing in and melting it all again. We have had high winds, no winds and a bunch of stuff in between…….but mostly full sun.
We found ourselves getting up in the morning just to watch the sunrise…..
Beautiful is not a big enough word.
When we bought the house the main living area, kitchen and main bathroom were all finished…..the bedrooms were drywalled and ‘ready to finish’. A decent winter project….except that someone else’s idea of ‘ready to finish’ did not meet the standard of himself..!!
This resulted in stripping of drywall from walls and ceilings, discovering all the areas where insulation had slumped in the walls ( when the windchill hits -50 C that can be important..!!)
….and then there’s the attic experience…….14 bags of cellulose insulation up there….all still in the bag……..at least we did not have to carry it up there….
The room needed a table and bench…so from some of the lumber laying around in one of the multiple heaps on the property……and a set of hairpin legs….
So…all newly insulated, drywalled, painted and furnished…….guest room number one…
Of course there have been the usual knitting and sewing projects going on….
The sourdough starter that started its life in Ontario, but has travelled across Canada and the US and back again has taken on a life of its own….
….and it makes a superior baguette…!!!
So…on to guest room number two…that kind of morphed into the TV room as we started painting it….
We were particularly pleased with the ‘exit’ lights…..salvaged from the former community hall in the aptly named Lucky Strike, Alberta… ( go on, I challenge you to find it on the map…LOL) There are so many small places around here with great names such as Manyberries, Seven Persons, Legend, Onefour and Whisky Gap.
The hardest part of any project here…..is the view from the windows….it’s distracting trying to get stuff done when you are always staring out the window…LOL….
OsteoPraxis on the road 