K&B's House by the Sea: February 2016

Monday, 22 February 2016

Build journal – Raising the roof

Well, more like sheathing the roof. but that doesn’t have the same ring to it ;-) It’s February, the peaks are all up, and now it’s time to finish sheathing the roof. Brian gets all the credit here, I really didn’t do anything to help with this part of the sheathing process. But I did work on finishing up the sheathing on the walls while Brian was busy on the roof. First he finished up the back side…

Mandatory artsy shot ;-)

And then he moved around to the front of the roof. Can you see him? He looks so tiny!

While we were working on the sheathing, a snow squall came through.

Before:

During:

After:

All done!

And my handiwork on an end wall…

Next we move up to the second floor. Which was supposed to for for storage, but how can you waste this view on storage?!

To follow our whole build process, check out our Build journal

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Friday, 12 February 2016

Build journal – A peek at our peaks

When the roof trusses went up, the garage got pretty tall.

But we weren’t done there – oh no, why have a tall garage when you can have a super-tall garage! It’s now the end of January, and there’s still the peaks to put up on the trusses. Luckily, the peaks are small enough and light enough for us to handle ourselves. Brian’s job is, as always, to be up high and put the peaks in place. My job is to bring the peaks around from the end of the garage and hook them up to the winch. This is where peak number 1 will go…

And there it is!

Now there’s three peaks…

And four…

Making good progress…

The first peak on the other end of garage…

I did NOT want to be up where Brian is!

And the peaks are done!

And the pre-requisite artsy shot :-)

Woohooo! We finally have a proper garage! Now if we can just get all the sheathing done…

Check out our Build journal page to see all of our garage progress.

Monday, 8 February 2016

Winter walk

We weren’t in Nova Scotia last winter. You know, the one that everyone around here refers to as the worst winter EVER. Even people who have lived here their whole lives can’t remember a worse winter. So we weren’t really sure what to expect this winter – and so far, it hasn’t been bad at all :-) We just won’t think about the storm that’s supposed to hit today!

A couple of weeks ago I set off up our road with my camera to take some winter pictures. It was a beautiful day, and I didn’t even need a hat or mitts – in the middle of January! The light was beautiful, and I snapped pictures of everything that caught my eye.

Like shadows…