Third Month of Summer Begins this Week!

 Well it is August 21st and summer has only one month left and we still have so much to do.



It's not that we haven't got a lot done because we have. We successfully dug a 50 ft French drain to take our sump pump water away from the house. The upstairs bathroom is complete and beautiful. It is a pleasure to step into a bright, clean, functioning bathroom. Photos to follow! Our electrician did an outstanding job of wiring the bathroom for a new fan and two GFCI plugs. The kitchen walls have had the plaster and lathe stripped from them, and drywall and other surfaces are going up. The floor is completely covered with concrete backer board and every single place that a rodent could enter the kitchen has been covered with hardclothe including all of the vents. We had our electrician add a pony panel onto our 100 amp service so that our kitchen devices won't keep blowing the breakers. And he replaced all the sump pump wiring in the basement. We ordered the kitchen floor today- cork. The painter, when the weather permits, is diligently painting away.

The new shower stall to replace the old tub


But there have also been delays that we didn't need to have happen. Our plumber hasn't gone back to us yet on his quote for the new bathroom plumbing on the main floor or let us know about our kitchen sink installation. There were three sets of wasp nests up in our fascia. The roof guys, who were supposed to replace the fascia and add ice guards to the roof won't be around until October. And we can't get our gutters done until the ice guards and the fascia are replaced since the  fascia was  rotting and if we don't install ice guards the snow sliding off the roof will just take all of the new gutters off. And got a quote to replace the 600 sq. ft porch for $50,000 CDN! But the biggest disappointment is the painting over a roof which we did in the first month that we moved in last year.  Rust is already showing through the paint and paint has been peeling.  It is under warranty for this issue but it still depressing to see areas that you've already completed spring a leak. I am hoping that the main roof remains sound. 

We also found that we had a bat in the attic this summer, which is both a positive and a negative. It's a negative because we had a bat in the attic this summer and there's all sorts of bat poop to clean up now. It's a positive because when we went up into the attic in early September of 2023 to see this house it was a buzz with a huge number of flies. Cluster flies are enormously difficult to get rid of. Bats eat insects and there are no flies in my attic anymore. 

And it is harvest season now and I have so much food to process! I am feeling a little overwhelmed right now but this too shall pass. It will get done and I have to just be a little more relaxed about the whole thing. 


I certainly didn't have harvesting puffballs on my to do list but I do now!

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