Hope you are all enjoying a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend. We have had a great, but busy weekend so far. We are even planning a small turkey dinner today. Our roofer raised a bunch of turkeys this year, so he butchered them on Saturday. Now we have a fresh, free range turkey (quartered) so we can enjoy a turkey feast today and 3 more times in the future.
Lots of trades on site most of the week. Was a busy place with up to 7 or 8 vehicles here most days. The HVAC guys will be done on Tuesday. The roofer is almost done the house and will be finishing the garage Tuesday and Wednesday. The Plumber is done all the rough-in plumbing and the electical is well under way.
Was such a glorious day on Saturday, took this photo from upstairs in the house.
Most of the windows should arrive a week from today, so I’m really excited about that. Also, next week we may have the fireplace installers here to get our fireplace setup. Once they complete that we can actually fire it up. Will be great to get heat in the house once the windows are in. It is usually pretty chilly in the mornings now.
Aron is also working away at getting the water line in from the river. That is going well, but it is a big job and he has a lot of other things on his plate, so it doesn’t get his full attention as much as he’d like.
We’ve also been buying up a few trees to plant in our yard. Late fall is a great time to buy as we got these for 30%-40% off. I’m looking forward to having more reds and oranges in our fall foilage.
We also have had a hard frost, so we had to go do some fall clean up on the garden. All that is left in the ground is our carrots and beets.
Here are the pumpkins I harvested (3 had gone bad and I threw them away). They are not jack-o-lantern pumpkins, but for making pies. Hopefully they are ripe enough, as they didn’t turn orange, not sure if they are even supposed to. I’ll let you know how they turn out. The pumpkin plant was so prolific, it could have produced a hundred or more pumpkins. I kept pulling off the blossoms, so it could concentrate it’s efforts into just a few, since we planted it so late this year.
Was such a sunny, lovely day Saturday, took a few pictures along the river.
In other news, we finally got an offer for our Airdrie house. There are conditions on financing and an inspection, but by Thursday, hopefully the sale will be final. Can’t wait!!
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I want to say how grateful we are for; being able to move to such a beautiful location, having wonderful family and friends who love and support us, enjoying good health, and getting to build the home of our dreams. We are truly blessed. We love living in Canada and are so lucky for all that we have here. Enjoy and celebrate!!