Pelican Drive: Getting ready for Christmas Holidays

We are working towards trying to spend some time out at the lake over the Christmas break. We will not be having the big Christmas dinner out there this year. Maybe next year. Time just sort of ran out on us and the thought of hauling all the presents and food out at the last minute is too overwhelming. We will go out for a bit and I get two weeks off, so that will work out fine.
We now have a new area rug in the living room. I was not sure about it, but the salesman at the carpet store talked me into this one and we both really liked it once it was put in place.

Taken from the loft.

Zooming in a bit. We have throws down on the couches for our poor cold Dexter Dog to lie on. That dog is one really pampered, spoiled pooch.

The outside basement walls are framed and insulated halfway down. The temperature difference in the basement is four degrees with insulation only part way down the walls. We will be getting the wiring done for the rooms soon and then the carpenter will come out to finish the walls and put up the interior walls to finish the basement rooms.

We do not like having a tv in the living room so will move it downstairs once the basement is complete. The piano will sit in the spot that the tv is now in. Or maybe the piano can go in the loft or basement and the cabinet radio I have that my Mom bought for my Granny in 1946 can sit in that spot. Hmmmm........decisions, decisions.

Herman installed the pendant lights this weekend. The painter finished up on Saturday with some touch ups and we decided that it was not worth it to have someone come out all the way from Manitoba just to hang three lights. So that is done and we had fun doing it, as you can see. I did learn about how the wiring for the lighting ran while holding some of the thingys for the lights!

I do not think that an occupational health and safety committee on a job site would approve of this set up while installing the lights.

Herman was really close to the edge of the island when he installed the middle light. I was a lot nervous about that situation. Stood very close to the island and the chair he was sitting on while being his assistant. Thankfully he has great balance and was very careful.

We still need to get a few items and the furnace needs some tweaking this week. But all in all we are very happy with this cottage and look forward to spending more and more time out at Pelican Pointe. Just hope the coyote that we saw on the lake the other day stays away from our place. The ice fisher people are now out so the coyotes will be on the lake eating the stuff that is left from the fish and the fisher people.