Well...it looks like we will be settling into winter mode for the next few months. The lake is pretty well frozen over. The ice fishing shacks are starting to spring up and we heard the first snowmobiles on the lake today. Guess the total silence is gone till about mid March. It is still a lot quieter than the home we have in Regina though.
We have everything hooked up. The furnace is running, the septic and cistern system is performing well. We have a glitch with the new dishwasher, but it is under warranty and should be fixed soon. The painter from Conquest is scheduled to come out this week and touch up the mudding and painting he did previously. The carpenter is also coming out this week to frame and insulate the basement. We hope to peck away at the basement and have everything completed by next summer. The basement will house two bedrooms, a bathroom, a workshop for Herman, a utility room, a rumpus/living room and a wine room/second kitchen. We will use the appliances and gas fireplace from the pink palace to outfit the basement rooms/guest suite.
Dexter on the lake waiting to have his ball thrown.
This is pretty much the same angle from the frozen lake as one of the first pictures in the blog of the pink palace. Just to think that the old place was still standing in this spot five months ago. The cottage looks grey in this light. But it really is a pretty blue.
The almost completed kitchen. Once the ceiling is finished being painted we will have the pendant lights installed. We are also still waiting for the table top to come back from the furniture refinisher. He is getting two leaves made to match the table top. We are hoping to have it by Christmas, since we will have a lot of kids and grandkids out at the beach for the holidays.
Another view of the kitchen. We need to extend out the microwave shelf, since I purchased a honking big microwave that does not quite fit in the space. More new home glitches I guess.
We will be pumping water from the lake into the cistern. Herman bought an auger this week and is doing a test hole in this picture. We also bought a cute little pump that will sit on the ice and fill the 1500 gallon cistern in about an hour. This place will definitely keep us busy this winter. But we love the sun glistening on the snow and the clear, clean fresh cold air. There is a path to the lake behind the cottage that is the perfect toboggan run for the kids and grandkids. And another path to the lake fills with snow and packs in so that you can take great big blocks of snow out of there and build forts for snow ball wars. Some people cannot stand the cold and snow of winter. We love it.
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