This is the year our house project evolved into a lifestyle.  We built a firewood shelter and garden/motorbike shed, installed 100m of fencing and three gates to keep the dog in and the deer out, felled several dead trees and cleaned up branches, spread several tons of 1″ round stone around the house, terraced and leveled several parts of the yard, built some more rock retaining walls, and finished a few projects inside the house. We found time for several trips and a great deal of leisure activities, as well as teaching a course at UBCO and giving several interviews, and the welcoming of our new Shiba, Taisho. Shall now turn to interior projects for the winter, and sporting activities outside.

Getting rid of a pile of small branches and twigs.

New hovercraft ($50 on sale) that moves heavy equipment by using compressed air. Works like a charm.

View of the kitchen cupboards as they have looked for a few years now.

No idea how we will find anything now.  Next on the kitchen list is two more banks of drawers, and maple/cherry trim above the uppers.  And then doors for the corner cabinets, and another set of uppers, and the cherry trim on the peninsula.

And here is Taisho playing with a neighbour’s dog. Lots of spunk.