We apologize for being lax when it comes to keeping the blog up to date. We've all been hard at it.
Mike and Alex have made numerous wood gathering forays to the piles of trees knocked down during last winter's driveway construction. We have finally managed to fill the new woodshed, but we calculate that should only last us about 6 weeks! Every log we can get now, will be one less we have to extract from the snow in a month's time. Typically, Mike chainsaws the fallen trees up into 18"-20" lengths, Alex loads them into the truck and then splits and stacks them when we return to the house. We are burning 24/7 now as temps are below zero at night and rarely go above 7 or 8 degrees C during the day.
We have finished insulating the top two floors. Vapour barrier is done but for one small area upstairs and one section of the cathedral ceiling.
We have managed to get the plumbing for the downstairs bath/shower installed and working. Now, if only we could get some time to do the tile work and put up a shower curtain we could actually shower standing up! Still, it's nice to see the bathroom progressing, even if the work goes slower than we'd like.
Our kitchen cupboards arrived last Thursday! Carol and Alex had a tough day cleaning and tidying up the basement to give us enough room to store them. They were 9 days early and we're not quite ready to install them yet. I still have to frame in a bulkhead above the stove and then drywall the kitchen walls. While not all that difficult, it is still a challenge to find the time to get it done. We ordered the kitchen stuff from Home Depot and have chosen a shaker style in a dark cinnamon colour. Pics will follow as we install them.
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