Split, split, split

That has been what has been going on around here for the most part. That and waiting for the roof to be finished.

The roof was finally finished on Thursday morning after a couple of supply snafus. It looks great, and I really can't say enough about how efficient, polite and just an all around good team the installation crew was.

Kevin rented the big gas powered splitter from Home Depot to get through the stack of big logs we got from St. Basil cutting down some trees around the church(I hesitate to guess, but we may have almost enough for next season). Now we just have to re-stack this years wood in the shed, put this newly split wood up on a skid in the yard and cover it to keep out the snow and ice.

Beginning of Fall

I'm going to try to do at least weekly posts here. We've been busy this past week. It seems like you spend a lot of time waiting for things like roofs, but then just when you think nothing is going to happen for a while, everything  happens all at once.

We went from having old shingles, to having supplies delivered to having most of  our new roof on all in the space of 24 hours (supplies dropped 3pm Thursday, phone call around 4pm that day that roofers would be there 8am next day). Unfortunately, not enough supplies were ordered, so once side of our roof has been unfinished this weekend. Two more boxes were couriered out Friday and arrived yesterday, so everything will be done tomorrow before 10am!!! I love it already, and people are already slowing down to look as they go by.

In other news, the pile of wood we had a visit from bylaw about (darned people getting panties in a wad and not speaking with us first) is now cut to length, split to size and stacked neatly.

The worst side of the roof before:

The front of the roof after (worst side is the one they didn't finish):

Growing Up

Caleigh is getting older too soon. Kevin is out front teaching her how to safely mow the lawn.  It seems like just yesterday she was born, and now she's in grade 5, wearing training bras, asking for blue streaks in her hair and learning how to use the lawn mower. Where does the time go?

Restarting

It's been such a long time since I've posted to this blog, and so much has happened. We had to say goodbye to Patches in the middle of the summer last year(one day after our anniversary to be exact). We also had previously added two guinea pigs to our little group. They were Humane Society adoptions: a long haired girl named Dakota, and another American shorthair named Speedy. Speedy passed earlier this year :(, so now we are down to 3 piggies aaaandd..... a puppy!

Yes, we dove in and adopted a puppy at the Humane Society on New Year's Eve last year. His name is Joey and he's a black Lab mix with some white patches on him. He's now almost a year old and we've been taking ng him through obedience classes to help us all learn together. He's much bigger than we initially intended our dog to be, but he's learning as he grows and has been such a wonderful influence for Aidan, who has gone from being afraid of all dogs to being confident around them.

The kids are growing and learning so much as they continue e school. Caleigh is now in grade 5, Aidan is in grade 3 and Brynna is an SK!  Both Caleigh and Aidan are in Cubs and Brynna has started Beavers.

I'm going to try to keep up with this blog better than I have in the cast, but make no promises that I won't forget from time to time.