House Projects and a New Fence

Once upon a time there was a princess who loved hot baths. The princess was a free spirit and spent many years as a gypsy, often on a sailboat with no bathtub, alas. The princess never gave up her dream of luxuriating in a jetted 6' tub in her new home.  And it is slowly happening.....

Jim made a wheeling dolly so we could move the tub around easily.

First test fitting.   OOOOOOO!

Of course, nothing is easy, especially when you're ensuring the tub sits properly.

Roll the tub away and start working on drywalling.

It's hard work!  About this time that we  decided that someone else will do the rest of
the drywall in the house when we finish the bedroom, office and art studio.

Last fall Jim primed and painted the long corner boards, which will be mounted outside.

Ramp is now well attached to the house.  

Our latest project involves putting a deer fence around the perimeter of our property.  This will allow us to uncover our zen pond, plant apple trees and blueberry bushes, grow flowers and enjoy more of our land.  Jim's back is injured again so he can't do a lot of physical work right now.  He's pretty frustrated but we work at things as we can.  The fence is labour intensive and time sensitive but we're getting there.  It won't be long until it's growing season again.

It's 120' across the lowest part of our property.  We cleared a lot of brush to make room.

It takes about 1.5 hours to dig a 24" deep post hole. I'm the fence hole queen.
This fence will have a gate  in it.   Jim and I work together on this project, as usual.

No more alder!  We're going to move the bamboo (on the right) into the space where the alder was.
We're also going to add more soil to the lowest areas to create more land for a food forest.

Life continues and we enjoy what we're creating.  

Cheers, until next time.

Jim and Tricia Bowen