Spring has sprung here on the ravine, and we have been doing what we can to enjoy it, despite the fact that we’re still waiting for the City to grant us our permit to build the deck. We’ve been caught up in the City’s extra sharp due diligence, ever since our neighbours down the street…
Bread porn is back!
Isn’t it ironic that when my paying day job becomes social media ALL DAY ALL NIGHT ALL THE TIME, my personal social media profile completely tanks? This is what happens when you’re the sole person responsible for breathing life into the social profile of a corporate brand. Sigh. Well despite this, I am starting to…
Remembering
A year ago, without warning, I lost my hero: my Dad. I wasn’t ready for him to go. It’s still hard to believe he’s gone. I have a gaping hole in my heart. I had so much more to ask him about, to share with him, to laugh together over. I miss late nights in…
Shiny new playground
It’s not lost on me for one second just how ridiculously lucky I am to have been able to, with my hubby, undertake this immense renovation project and be able to design something exactly the way we wanted it. I feel sort of self-conscious sometimes talking about what we’ve done here, knowing that others can…
The best chicken soup EVER.
OMG. A food post? Yup. Finally. I’ve had some time to settle into my awesome new kitchen and then, well, then I got sick. I’ve contracted a scratchy sore throat that’s quite probably evolving its way into being a full blown nasty sinus cold. So as I sit here taking it easy, letting my body…
Under the sea
Time for a little tropical colour. We had a lovely visit with my brother and his family this past weekend. It was our first time having house guests here at the new place and the first time they got to see our new house. While it was not a PA day for our local school…
Settling into 2014
Well hello 2014. I’ve been a bit tardy on the blog lately as we had one hell of a December. We got moved in, although later than we’d hoped. We had been in for precisely one week when the ice storm hit and cut off our power for three and a half days. This was…
We are in!
It’s been a bit of a bumpy start but we are home, sweet home! I say bumpy because when we arrived, the upstairs bedrooms were freezing cold, and the basement was roaring hot; we discovered we didn’t have a working shower and had to live without for days, and well, the place was — and…
Rural life
So our move hasn’t gone quite according to plan. We did move one big load of our belongings to the new house on December 7, but the house wasn’t ready for us to live in it yet, so we piled our stuff in the rooms that were finished and turned right around and came back….
One week left
This is it! Our last week before we move into the new house. I wasn’t sure a week ago if things would be ready but now it’s looking very close indeed. It’s amazing how much can happen in a short time. As of Friday night I started a much needed vacation — originally I booked…