We finally are starting on finishing the basement. It is a contractor's bad dream out there. Mud all over and the rain will not end. Soon I hope. Since the yard is basically a mud bog, the contractor's trucks have trouble delivering and parking. Everyone is praying that this rainy, wet spring will not turn into a repeat of the rainy, wet summer and fall we had last year. Amazing we even got this house in.
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| We finally have some furniture in the loft. I purchased the sectional and the old chair was my uncle's. Herman will put his little ham radio up here and we can sit here in the evening listening and talking to strangers from all over the world. Really is interesting and the propagation on the air waves is really good since we have amazing quiet and very little noisy air interference at the Pointe. |
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| Heading downstairs. |
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| Herman's future workshop. This room is 17" by 20" and we may turn it into a large bedroom down the road. For now though, a workshop it is. |
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| The pod (with door) that Conquest built and we had craned in. The pod contains the furnace, water heater, Vanee air exchanger, etc. It was nice to have all this come in at once and Conquest just hooked up everything. The little room beside the pod houses the pump, pressure tank and sump pump. |
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| This will be the wine room/kitchen in the basement. We have the old gas range and fridge from the pink palace that we will put in this room. So guests can be self contained if they wish. But they may have to put up with the brewing carboys. We pick wild Saskatoons, chokecherries and soon my planted blueberries to make wine with. Lots of berries out by us that we can just drive up to and start picking. |
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| Two bedrooms and a bathroom. I really like the way Robinson Residential designed the bedroom doors so that they do not open into the rumpus room. |
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The rumpus room. Takes a lot of imagination to visualize these rooms. But we are getting there.
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We had the first birthday party in the family at the lake this spring.
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The four April birthday celebrants! Grandchild number six arrives in August. That will be five grandkids aged four and under. This blended family just keeps growing. And only three of six kids are married. YIKES.
I hope to get some pictures of the yard progressing, should it ever quit raining so that we can progress.
Cheers.
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