Walls

On Thursday I put down the floor joists and Friday the plywood floor, Cathy screwed down the plywood to the joists.
Today I started to build the walls.
We had some rain last night, I saw glad I put the tarp down, to keep the rain off the floor. 

John's Report on Jazmine Emma's Brittany

Wednesday April 26, 2006
Emma called me at work all happy and smiley. She received in the mail a certificate showing that in 2005 our dog Jazmine was the number 4 Brittany Spaniel in Canada.
The ranking comes from the tabulation of points from all the dogs Jamine beat in the show ring in 2005.
Emma had a goal of a top 5 placing for 2005, which she achieved. This is a big achievement for a owner handler.
Most of the dogs that do well in the show ring are handled by professionals not amateur handlers like Emma and I. There were times that Emma was in the ring and feeling very poorly from her cancer medicine, she also showed while having a major migraine headache which made her vision all wonky. Despite feeling poorly she would solder on and get the job done. Nice to have something special like this to show for all the hard work and travel in 2005.


Emma, You and Jazmine did a great job to get 4th place. Dad

European Liverleaf Hepatica

When we decided to move from Calgary to our acreage at Red Lodge Estates, we were very sad to leave all of the perennials that we had planted. The Liverleaf noted above in the title, was planted under the deck and it had bloomed grandly in the spring. Last November Raymond dug it up and we planted it at the back of the house in the shade and we hoped it would survive. Lo and behold, this spring little shoots could be seen and now it is blooming and it is beautiful. It blooms in the spring and then it gets leaves which remain all summer. Thank goodness it likes it here, too! 

Drainage

The drainage around the footings was past OK by Zack

The Foreman

Zack the foreman checking my work 

The hole is done

The hole is done, now to level it and start on the walls 

First bucket load

The first bucket load coming out of the new room crawl space 

Garden

We removed the black dirt from the place the garage pad is going and made a pile to put the plants in from the flower bed by the front deck.
I rotatilled the new garden and put more black dirt here too. 

Front Deck Removed

I removed the front deck, to get ready to build the new room. 

Moved

I got the plumbing done in the back room and moved the washer/dryer from under the stairs.
The place under the stairs is the computer room for now. 

Spring Time

1st of April and this AM we had rain, then snow.
Then by 3PM it was allmost al gone.
This is spring time in Alberta