Look what the Easter Bunny brought

Been absent for awhile.  A lot has been happening with not much visible to show for it.  This was the scene on Sunday morning.

The Easter bunny came with a new roof.  Here goes the old roof. 

Now we have a new roof.

Note all of the new windows and the patio door.  Also this is a total view of the back deck.

Remember this photo.

This is what it looks like now.

Once we have started clearing away the vegetation, we have found a great deal of dead vegetation underneath the green growth and trunks and stems of plants that must have been here since the exit of the last ice age.

A view of some of the vegetation around the property.

Marsh marigold in the pond.

A sad rhodedendron.  I should have take a picture of the one across the street.  Much more impressive.

An arbutus tree.  This is a very nice specimen.  These trees are protected here on the island.  The remain green all winter.  The electric company comes by every so often and prunes around the electrical lines. 

The new windows on the south side of the house.  We get a fairly nice view on parts of downtown Nanaimo and the night lights.

Finally a view of the front of the house with all of the patio doors and upper windows installed.

We had Alison and Darian here for the weekend.  Much Longwood Framboise, Crabbes Ginger beer and other assorted varieties of beer were consumed which made for a very quiet Easter Sunday, except for the roofers banging away all day on the roof.

We are crawling with trades now either working or pricing.  Prices here in Nanaimo are really good compared to what we would be paying for the same jobs in Lethbridge.  We hope to be to the drywall stage soon.