Experiment

A Great Couple

Our friends Randy and Nancy are getting married in December. They wanted some pictures taken and I was happy to oblige. When the guns came out I was momentarily frightened but they're really quite harmless.

My P

I took this quick snap of my 'assistant' P at a recent photo shoot:

The Big Dig

The geothermal system is a go! After many painful months of dealing with prospective contractors, the work is going ahead. The poor old house has no idea what's happening around it but in the years to come, it will be warm through winter and cool in summer after this brief disruption. We're quite proud of the fact that this big, 134 year old home will not consume any form of fossil fuel for heat while adding the mod-con of central air AND reducing heating costs by 55%. With work on the three main floor wood fireplaces completed, we hope to be quite cozy this coming winter.

Hold on to your hats....here come the pics:

New Table

We went to the fantastic Christie Antique show at the Christie Conservation lands near Hamilton last weekend and found ourselves a dining room table! Our vacuous dining room has been crying out to be filled. We had set the furnishing of the dining room as a long term goal knowing that it is both hard to find nice looking furniture and very expensive. But luck was on our side last weekend when we stumbled on this unique oak table and, with alot of help from P's mom's house warming gift, we were able to make the acquisition! It suits our tastes and the room beautifully. We can't wait to have our first dinner party. Anyone willing to drive to Ayr for a lovely meal by the fire?

Acquiring the table triggered a flurry of furniture moving on the main floor. Our circular dining table from the old house is now in the niche in the kitchen so we have an eat-in kitchen now which is very exciting since guests will no longer be forced to stand for hours while conversing with the cook.

I did manage to bring in a couple of heirloom tomatoes this year. It was a dismally small crop though. My all-time, bar-none favourite meal:

We love the chunky turned legs


We also found some lightning rods in excellent condition and while we intended to put them on the room (where the lightning rods have inexplicably vanished) we think they make better tchatchki's.

Its 8 feet long so we can comfortably seat eight and somewhat more intimately seat ten. P and I had a lovely meal just last night in front of our very first fire. I worked a fair bit of overtime this week and P had beautiful eggplant parmigiano waiting for me when I got home.

Yes eagle-eyed readers, there is the minor detail of not having any chairs, but they are much easier to find than a table which is the room's focal point.

Paris (Ontario)

The Paris Fair

The Paris Fair was on this weekend. It was good old fashioned fun.

The Monkey

I caught someone 'making a bed' on one of the chairs in the living room. Yes, that's our wallpaper. We should have all of that hideousness gone after a nice long cold winter....or two.

The Chefs

Yes, that is the siren call of homemade perogies!

The Knitters