Building on the go

Things are busy here at the Shuswap lot, as the new building is on it's way with 2 walls up before the torrential  rains hit last night.  We quickly covered up the floor with poly because we don't want any of the underfloor insulation to get wet.  Looks like we were successful.  I will try to take some pictures today.

Kim has been busy mailing off Tucker pictures to family and friends while Don assists in the building effort.  Our hot weather has left us, turning to a more comfortable 25 C during the day.

My dear friend, Penny, made this beautiful afgan for wee Tucker.

Our son is hoping he will sleep like this till he is 4 years old. Enjoy it while you can, my love!

Tucker Pictures!!!!!

We think our little Tucker is such a sweetheart!  Isn't that the way is supposed to be?  On his second day, we made another visit to their hospital room and more cuddling, of course.  Mum and babe are doing very well, and they may be able to come home today or tomorrow. 

We took our son, Nathan, out for dinner the night of the delivery and last night and it was great to spend some time together. There was also an invitation to join some friends at a home on top of Bear Mountain, a fairly exclusive new neighbourhood in Victoria/Langford.  I managed to take some pictures for future firepit and living room design ideas.  The house overlooked the ocean with views to Port Angeles, and a busy afternoon of cruise ships arriving.  In the drydock near our kids house, the Disney Ship is going through a retrofit, and Keira says when it blows " When you Wish Upon a Star" from about a block away, it is very loud!

Exciting day today: we are off shortly to Cobble Hill, to see Rick and Paulette's new tiling job!   While we anticipate it will be perfect and beautiful, we will report back if the job is up to their blog reports! Ha! Oh, and we are going to have a visit , too! And quilts... and......

Then perhaps more babytime later??????

We are new grandparents!

A beautiful boy: 7 lbs, 12 ozs, born at 2:15 pm today to Nathan and Keira.  They have named him Tucker and did we say he is beautiful? We are thrilled to bits ... pictures, of course, to follow in the next post.  We are in love .......
Nana Kim and Papa Don.
Presently in Victoria BC

Squirrel on Sale

Maybe this is the infamous squirrel that stole 50 brand new solar light bulbs off the cedar tree earlier in the summer.  Then again, we think maybe this is one of the babies.  It has no fear of us, running right by our feet as it busily caches sunflower seeds in our gardens, planters and hopefully not underneath the 5th wheel.

Now, you may notice this squirrel has a red sticker on the backside of it's tail.  He/she was burying seed in one of the planters that was also holding a new fall mum temporarily.  This pot holding the mum still has it's sale stickers on. The mum was $12.99 by the way. Looks like it got too close to the stickers on the pot.

 So, now this squirrel is $12.99. Any takers? Please. We'll take less.

frequent flyer miles for excavator work?

It looks like this excavator lives at the property.  More ca-ching$$. We needed to level out a small patch of land for the storage/bunkie/studio.  More trees to come down, more dirt to haul away!  Luckily a new neighbour is backfilling around his new basement, and the fill only had to be hauled about 5 properties away. Not that it was that much fill, but trucking fees can add up.

We made a trip to Rona in Salmon Arm ( the guy was so rude we won't be placing our building supply order there!) and also Home Hardware in Scotch Creek and Chase and Home Depot in Kamloops.  We'll see who comes up with the best price.  The list was only a couple of pages long, from cement blocks to T & G pine for the interior ceiling. There will be a contractor building the wee thing, as we are too busy this fall... and to think we are retired - what's with that?

Thought we almost had the "baby" phone call yesterday!  Our son called " Mother! What is with the font on your blog. Mother, it is a serious blog and that looks childish". Ok, for you, dear, I will change it ( later!) I reminded him that he has not posted to his blog for over 6 months. 'Nuff said.

Donald is taking a couple more trees down by hand today as they are small, only grow like weeds here and will soon be in the way of the building. A beautiful day and the weather looks to be great all weekend. 

Heavy 'dirt' discussion