Four Square Nightmare?

  It's a week past the start of summer, but I've been really busy so I haven't had any time to write about all the renovations we have done. If pictures of old poop bother you stop reading now. One of our biggest problems has been solved. The septic issues are no more. It took us going to seven different septic professionals before we finally had a solution. Am I now an expert on septic systems? Yes I am. I was completely ready to take the septic exam if required. Found the second tank! Getting it pumped out the day before fixing everything! So what happened? Well, I phoned one of the major septic system sellers, Waterloo Biofilters, in Ottawa and they gave me the names of three trusted septic system installers and my husband called one of them.  Dan O' Grady Equipment and he very nicely came out and paid our site a visit. He started digging around our leach field and said hey you might have a tank out here because your pumping station is beside the house. Then he sugge...

Where to begin about the last 2 months? I've been so busy working outside but I literally haven't had the energy to write about what we're doing with the house. I get up early in the morning, put on my outside work clothes, put on my bug netting and work outside between 2 and 3 hours every morning before I have breakfast. Then I come in, have breakfast and then go outside for another couple of hours until it is too hot or I'm too tired to do anymore. The yard is literally littered with invasive species or things that have been allowed to go to seed and spread. I have Japanese Knotwood which is an invasive species that I have to phone the Ontario government about and hopefully we'll be allowed to purchase Roundup in order to successfully remove this plant from our space. But there's also Chinese lantern, Linden broom, Buckthorn, some form of thorny Wild Rose, Manitoba maple and sumac all through the property. I am going to leave the scads blackberries alone (for ...