John's day off

Today's weather.

The weather has been gorgeous here for the last few days, and the forecast holds for a few more very sunny days.

Yesterday's first order of business was (I had to stop and take a second photo, because the first picture looked like we had finished off half of the product already)

Several weeks ago we went to one of the local u-brew stores and had them start three wine kits for us.

Yesterday we went out to bottle the wine, which is the only thing that we have to legally do.  It was a really good experience, with both of us bottling and labelling it took about two hours to make up 90 bottles of wine.  The equipment is much more efficient than our equipment at home.

After that it was lunch in Ladysmith and back to Nanaimo. 

Next order of business was talking toilets ( and all related bathroom fixtures).  We firmed up our choices in that department.

Next it was off the finagle with the flooring people on our flooring decision.  We have decided to use a good quality laminate flooring in a medium, golden brown colour.

I have spent the past week getting granite samples and chose the tiles for the kitchen, and bathrooms.

Nothing way our, just plain neutral  colours.  J is off today to finagle with the tile people.  I am not good at bargaining, but J does a really smooth job on that. 

Granite sample and cabinet door.  The cabinet door was in Lethbridge and I was having a great deal of trouble making colour choices because beiges, vanillas, taupes  or whatever you want to call them can be so different.  Once I had the door sent here by courier, the choices were much easier to make.

I supposed you have taken notice of the background in this last picture, YES, we have the first coat of paint.

The fireplace has basically been untouched, the tile is pinkish and it is a big clumsy akward lump of brick.  We will be taking off the high hearth, and installing a gas fireplace.  The frame will be some combination of wood and tile or rock

This week will see the installation of rain screen, the finishing carpenter will be in here to start on the window casings, stair rails and doors when they come. 

Moxie and Ronnie have been working on the garden.  The pond has been cleaned out, the grass has been cut (entirely with a whipper snapper) and raked.  We are down to a clean slate out there now.