And then it’s off to Italy

Our Italian tile and granite guy, Dino, came over this morning to measure the kitchen cabinet surface so we can finally get our order sent out to Italy….once we decide what to do on the wall behind the counters…which I will discuss later. Dino brought a...

It’s almost like a peep show…

For weeks (well even months now since we’ve been living here two months already) we have been talking about getting curtains to put back in the bathroom downstairs. There were once lace curtains which hung on the window itself so they wouldn’t interfere...
Because of the birds…

Because of the birds…

We have recently found out that there are quite a few areas around our town that are restricted during certain parts of the year because they are bird sanctuary areas and they don’t want anything disturbing the birds during mating season. Unfortunately for us,...

A loooong walk

Well, I wanted to post these pictures last week but I just didn’t get around to it….so now that it’s cold here again and even snowing a bit over the last few days, it seems like a good time to post about the few spring days that we had…and hope...

A bit more of the white stuff

This morning as Ayla was persuading me to go for the walk (I wanted a warm cup of tea first but she wasn’t having it), I looked up at the sky and decided she was probably right. The clouds had been getting a bit darker and it was looking like rain. The last...