Day Trip
Monday saw us making an unexpected day trip to Bowen Island, a lovely little piece of rock tucked in the waters of Howe Sound just off the coast of West Vancouver. A scenic 20 minute ferry ride brings you to Snug Cove, the island’s quaint …
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Signs of Spring
It’s really hard to have the February blahs when the sun is shining. It’s even more difficult when you step outside and notice that there are flowers blooming! The crocuses are poking their heads out of the soil… …and the apricot tree is starting to …
Chai Spice
There’s been a lot of talk around the blogosphere lately about trying to avoid the February blahs. While I usually suffer from this seasonal affliction, I’ve been surprisingly chipper lately. Today was an exception though. The weather has been drizzly for the past few days …
One last look.
Today the last of the kitchen cabinets made the move from their original home to our garage in preparation for the upcoming kitchen renovation. We’re feeling a little overwhelmed by all that needs to be done (especially since we’ll be doing it all ourselves), but …
Knitting aspirations.
Monica asked yesterday if I could post a photo of the slippers from Knit 2 Together, a great new(ish) knitting book by comedian Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark. I thought I’d post a few of my other favorite projects at the same time.These are the …
What’s in yer fridge? (and s’mores)
Quinn (aka Burdockboy) suggested in a comment on the previous post about our new fridge that someone should start “refrigerator tag”, where people post a photo of the inside of their fridge for all the world to see. Since I’d also been thinking that something …
I Love Craigslist!
As you probably know, we’re trying to renovate our house on the cheap, reusing materials and doing it as “green” as possible – Craigslist has been an integral part of that. So far we’ve found the perfect set of cabinets for our kitchen, our lovely …
A wee bit of gardening, and popcorn.
Today was a beautiful, sunny day and I found myself with a bad case of spring fever – getting out into the garden was the only way of dealing with that.I planted out some Jerusalem Artichokes, transplanted my Arctic Beauty kiwis from the back yard …
Wood Stove Love
The wood stove is finally in! It was a lot more work than we anticipated, though we shouldn’t really be surprised by that anymore.The biggest part of the installation was removing a row of bricks from the surround so it would fit inside our existing …
All sewn up.
We had a nice, relatively quiet weekend (our weekend is Sunday/Monday), puttering and getting a few things done around the house. I pruned the fruit trees that needed pruning (we put in one each of apple, apricot, pear, cherry, peach, plum and fig trees last …