Decembre 2007


Long days and long nights.  Hard work and harder work.  No sleep, of course, we haven't slept in years !!!

We started to clean up the mess.  Took us a bit to get some sense of the non sense but first things first, THE FLOORS.  

(my girl posing as Cinderella !!!)

That wasn't fun at all but look  already at the difference!  Wow !... Sore for days after finishing this job.  Legs and back got the most of it....

My mother come from Gatineau PQ to help me with all the window treatments.  She's a pro.  Most of them we made by her.  Thanks mom.  That was the nicest gift of all.  Look at the difference when the painting was done in the kitchen.....enuf said !!

Ma mère vient de Gatineau PQ pour m'aider avec tous les rideaux pour les fenêtres. Elle est pro. La plupart d'entre eux fait par elle. Merci maman. C'ést le plus beau cadeau. Regardez la différence quand la peinture a été faite dans la cuisine !!

from this to that !   ---->

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And, cleaned up another room and  now we have a computer room and 

a piano room!

The upstairs will have to wait a bit.  We need a break and enjoy this !

Just on time for our first xmas in New Brunswick !!!!

November 2007


I don't know honestly how we got it all done... Very happy to say that in all that mess in Ontario, we found out who our real friends were.  At least some good came out of this.  Without them, this would have not been possible.  Thank you again.   Moving is hard, expensive and unwanted by anyone but moving out of province, now that's crazy.







Even crazier was when we first landed in the house we just bought, we couldn't even get in the basement, there was more then a foot of water.  They had mickey moused a little barbie size sump pump in a hole no bigger and deaper then my shoe size, everything was floating !  (I had never personally visited the basement at all during the purchasing, yeah, refused to do down the scary unsafe steps). The furnace had crapped out.  It was like sub zero in the house. The well pipes had split, ya, no drinking water, but we had it all on the basement floor ! The water tank was all rusted and non functional, like everthing else in this place and oh oh, to top it all off, water was coming down in the entrace way upstairs and in the bathroom.  Thank God we had pots and pans still packed in the boxes !

So, Terry dug by hand 9 feet to repair the well before this !!


This is what it was like for a couple of weeks in the kitchen so we could fix the bathroom !

This was the entrance way so we could fix the leak there, and fix the kitchen busted pipes and gutted bathroom...

This was the living room area which contained half the unpacked boxes, tools, drywall, plaster and piping for the leaking basement which the door is found at the right (can't see it but I can !! )...

Just another house to renovate but this one was tops. Everything you touched became an added project to the list.  Oh well .   At least, it got cold enough that the roof stopped leaking !!