Wow.
It's been quite the weekend / week, again. :-)
As I said, I went back to Kitchener on Friday night: it's a real quick flight. We went over to Lisa's parents house for supper on Saturday night, and did some work around the house.
On Sunday we drove back to Four Horse Haven.
This place is incredible. :-)
Anyway, we start to work on the place, cutting up the carpet in the living room. Nasty stinky crusty carpet. I'm guessing at least 50 years old. Underneath it is this faux laminate vinyl. We figure that it's glued down. However, once we get the carpet up, we discover that the vinyl is just nailed down. Around the edge. Underneath that was old linoleum, backed with horse hair padding. And under that, unglued, untouched barn board floor. I love the family who owned this house. :-)
That, of course, took a lot of time, over a few days.
Also, the applicances came: GE Profile stainless steel range and bottom-freezer french door fridge, and GE front-load washer and dryer. The dryer wouldn't fit, so we now have a working washer but not dryer. We've got to remove/move the sink in the laundry room, and all should be well.
Looked into new toilets. I think we're getting new Toto toilets put in throughout the house. We've ordered them, but they've got to be ordered (they had them in stock, but their in-stock models were damaged).
Lisa went back on Wednesday - she filled the freezer here at the house with frozen dinners for me. I just ate one. Mmmm. Delicious. :-)
Lisa found this: we figure that the house is the Gothic Cottage style. Apparently there were plans in the Canadian Farmer magazine in 1865, and there were thousands built. That's awesome. I want those plans. :-)
http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/gothicottage.htm
Lots of cleaning, lots of work.
Fireflies every night, surrounding the house.
3 playful groundhogs that live under our Garage Used for Storage Needs Some Work, that run and hide whenever they notice us.
A lone deer, loping through the tall grass along our back fence line.
Cows visible from our windows.
Alpacas down two houses.
A view that goes on for miles of fields, straight to the mountains.
Huge mature trees.
Fresh air, beautiful breeze...
And SPACE. Tons and tons of SPACE.
Four Horse Haven, indeed.
As I said, I went back to Kitchener on Friday night: it's a real quick flight. We went over to Lisa's parents house for supper on Saturday night, and did some work around the house.
On Sunday we drove back to Four Horse Haven.
This place is incredible. :-)
Anyway, we start to work on the place, cutting up the carpet in the living room. Nasty stinky crusty carpet. I'm guessing at least 50 years old. Underneath it is this faux laminate vinyl. We figure that it's glued down. However, once we get the carpet up, we discover that the vinyl is just nailed down. Around the edge. Underneath that was old linoleum, backed with horse hair padding. And under that, unglued, untouched barn board floor. I love the family who owned this house. :-)
That, of course, took a lot of time, over a few days.
Also, the applicances came: GE Profile stainless steel range and bottom-freezer french door fridge, and GE front-load washer and dryer. The dryer wouldn't fit, so we now have a working washer but not dryer. We've got to remove/move the sink in the laundry room, and all should be well.
Looked into new toilets. I think we're getting new Toto toilets put in throughout the house. We've ordered them, but they've got to be ordered (they had them in stock, but their in-stock models were damaged).
Lisa went back on Wednesday - she filled the freezer here at the house with frozen dinners for me. I just ate one. Mmmm. Delicious. :-)
Lisa found this: we figure that the house is the Gothic Cottage style. Apparently there were plans in the Canadian Farmer magazine in 1865, and there were thousands built. That's awesome. I want those plans. :-)
http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/gothicottage.htm
Lots of cleaning, lots of work.
Fireflies every night, surrounding the house.
3 playful groundhogs that live under our Garage Used for Storage Needs Some Work, that run and hide whenever they notice us.
A lone deer, loping through the tall grass along our back fence line.
Cows visible from our windows.
Alpacas down two houses.
A view that goes on for miles of fields, straight to the mountains.
Huge mature trees.
Fresh air, beautiful breeze...
And SPACE. Tons and tons of SPACE.
Four Horse Haven, indeed.
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