What have we been up to

I just realized that we have been working with the architect for the last few weeks as part of the planning process and i haven't shared anything recently. Most of these arrived in late June and we have been going back and forth a bit working on decisions. The current focus for our development permits are what the house will look like from the outside. Character Retention … [Read more...] about Week 29: Break Time

It took a fair bit of time to wipe everything down and move stuff back to the shelves so we didn't get a lot done this weekend. I did post our bricks online and managed to sell about 350 bricks for $5/dozen which was pretty sweet. We had talked about saving them to build paths but then we thought about the logistics and effort of moving them from our yard, storing them and … [Read more...] about Week 28: Housekeeping & Hiking

The heat finally broke and returned to something more closely approaching normal. I think it was only 10 degrees over seasonal norms. Since it was still too hot to really do anything active in the interior we pulled the plug on our trip up to see friends in Kamloops. Good thing too since fires started pretty much everywhere and the air quality plummeted. Instead of a … [Read more...] about Week 27: Long Chimney Weekend

Yeah. I'm a weekend warrior and it was hot as hell in Vancouver as a heat dome settled in over much of BC. I didn't really do anything productive on the house. Sarah got back from Ontario and was reasonably satisfied with the cleanliness of the house. She was a bit taken aback by the reality of the gaping hole in the kitchen where the chimney used to be despite having seen … [Read more...] about Week 26: Heat Wave