Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Getting sorted...
After all the stress of getting all our stuff in one place again, we worked and worked, and carted things about until we were fairly happy with what should be where. One issue was what to do with the fridge magnets? We managed to inherit a fridge with this new house that doesn't have magnetic doors - what sort of a place is this? They ended up on the back door...which some might think a tad odd, but it works for us...
The bed is back in its rightful spot - the blow up thing was fine for a night or two (or was it actually 6 nights?), but I have to say that I was delighted to get back to a proper mattress.
The little bookshelf that came all the way from the front bedroom in Carrick is stuffed with books...
The Denby all got washed and put away...
As did all the glasses, teapots and teaset... (imagine us having a teaset!)...
Here are some views of different rooms in the house.... they're pretty self-explanatory, so I won't bore you with a full commentary...
Family room (with the desk that was originally in the basement)
The other end of the family room, with the TV...
The view from the fridge in the front room...
The view to the fridge in the front room...
Couple of area rugs required here, but that can be sorted pretty easily.
Here is the new leather 'loveseat' - otherwise known as a two seater settee...
This is the view from the front bedroom, which also has a huge ensuite bathroom with double sinks (go figure!)...
The wedding present table and wedding present crystal bowl made it intact, and are now sitting at the front door...need a little lamp here, but its one of the few places in the house that doesn't seem to have an electrical socket (otherwise known as an outlet). Funnily enough, there are outlets on both sides of the front door, on the outside of the house, but none anywhere near the front door on the inside of the house - I wonder why?
So, after sorting all of that, I think we can safely say that J feels like he is at home...
We also had our first visitor - a certain vascular surgeon from Belfast, who also happens to hold a pilot's licence. Ken flew up from Calgary on Sunday, watched the World Cup final, had lunch and then flew off to Fort McMurray on his way to Yellowknife. As far as I know, Ken doesn't usually wear such unusual hats, but it is Stampede in Calgary, and maybe he was just trying to blend in...?
We got the camera to take a pic of the three of us on the front porch - we're all trying to hold our tummies in!
During Ken's visit (and I must confess during the football final), I even found the time to put some plants in pots just to brighten the garden up a bit. We had made a visit to Hole's nursery in St Albert and bought a few bedding plants...
And here they are in their big pots...
Two have gone by the front door, and one is just outside the kitchen window.
And finally, the potato pots got sunk in the ground so that they could be earthed up a bit - they're looking pretty healthy - no flowers yet but I think it won't be too long...
More later...
P
The bed is back in its rightful spot - the blow up thing was fine for a night or two (or was it actually 6 nights?), but I have to say that I was delighted to get back to a proper mattress.
The little bookshelf that came all the way from the front bedroom in Carrick is stuffed with books...
The Denby all got washed and put away...
As did all the glasses, teapots and teaset... (imagine us having a teaset!)...
Here are some views of different rooms in the house.... they're pretty self-explanatory, so I won't bore you with a full commentary...
Family room (with the desk that was originally in the basement)
The other end of the family room, with the TV...
The view from the fridge in the front room...
The view to the fridge in the front room...
Couple of area rugs required here, but that can be sorted pretty easily.
Here is the new leather 'loveseat' - otherwise known as a two seater settee...
This is the view from the front bedroom, which also has a huge ensuite bathroom with double sinks (go figure!)...
The wedding present table and wedding present crystal bowl made it intact, and are now sitting at the front door...need a little lamp here, but its one of the few places in the house that doesn't seem to have an electrical socket (otherwise known as an outlet). Funnily enough, there are outlets on both sides of the front door, on the outside of the house, but none anywhere near the front door on the inside of the house - I wonder why?
So, after sorting all of that, I think we can safely say that J feels like he is at home...
We also had our first visitor - a certain vascular surgeon from Belfast, who also happens to hold a pilot's licence. Ken flew up from Calgary on Sunday, watched the World Cup final, had lunch and then flew off to Fort McMurray on his way to Yellowknife. As far as I know, Ken doesn't usually wear such unusual hats, but it is Stampede in Calgary, and maybe he was just trying to blend in...?
We got the camera to take a pic of the three of us on the front porch - we're all trying to hold our tummies in!
During Ken's visit (and I must confess during the football final), I even found the time to put some plants in pots just to brighten the garden up a bit. We had made a visit to Hole's nursery in St Albert and bought a few bedding plants...
And here they are in their big pots...
Two have gone by the front door, and one is just outside the kitchen window.
And finally, the potato pots got sunk in the ground so that they could be earthed up a bit - they're looking pretty healthy - no flowers yet but I think it won't be too long...
More later...
P
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