The major project for this weekend was to begin taking down the plants on the back of the barn. The plant cover was a few feet thick, and growing under the roof already. It hasn’t been trimmed back in the last year and the ivy vines where incredibly agressive. The picture below is a shot […]

Unfortunately we didn’t have much help weatherwise yesterday and today it’s even worse. It had cooled down significantly and we had misting rain and wind yesterday. Not terrible, but not really pleasent either. We still managed a few projects around the garden, the most pressing of which was taking out the dying peach tree. We […]

Well, it is now 20 minutes past noon and we are still waiting for the bio container. They said it would be there before noon, but I guess they are once again delayed. Yesterday we surveyed the situation in our backyard and we really have our work cut out for us. The weather is supposed […]

Macky returned today to finish up the door to the office. And we must say it looks pretty darn good and it improves the flow of the house massively. Later on tonight we can take off the braces and enjoy our new closed off office. Macky had prepared another bid for us as well. Looks […]

We have been talking about removing the handrail running in the middle of our outside stairs for a while now. In the old days there where only 2 handrails on the wall (see it here), but the PO had installed one running down the front as can be seen in the picture here. So, since […]