Incompetent Farm Woman
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Outdoors on 29. Jun, 2008 | 16 Comments
I am not completely incompetent. I can dig holes with a shovel and I can bake my own bread. I can wield many types of saws and I can tell you exactly how to plumb an entire house. However, I have just discovered that I can’t dry laundry.
Now, I have hung laundry out to dry [...]
Montague Summer Days Scavenger Hunt
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Personal on 28. Jun, 2008 | 4 Comments
Normally, we are slaves to our house and we only leave the borders of our property to:
A. Purchase building supplies; and
B. Purchase food;
C. Nope, there’s just A and B.
However, this weekend is a big weekend for our community–it’s the weekend of the Montague Summer Days festival.
This morning we drove the six-minutes to get to [...]
Carnegie Hall
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 27. Jun, 2008 | 3 Comments
Good morning,
Our house is a tiny two-storey, three-bedroom box.
Upstairs there is a hall that leads to all three bedrooms. When we moved in, the hall looked as follows.
The hall actually looks pretty cute in this photograph. Unfortunately, the plaster was crumbling off the walls and was very damaged. So…we removed all the plaster from the [...]
All Alone in the Moonlight
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Personal on 25. Jun, 2008 | 6 Comments
Today was the hottest day we’ve experienced during our time here on Prince Edward Island, and we spent a lot of time cutting gyproc outside in short-sleeved shirts.
In the sun we reminisced about our winter here and the frozen-to-the-bone era that nearly broke us. Memories are so bizarre; did we really spend twelve hours a [...]
If You Build It…
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Life Dream, Personal on 17. Jun, 2008 | 2 Comments
I am sitting on our bed wearing long-johns in June.
I am denying myself the urge to scratch a very tempting mosquito bite on my unshaven calf.
I am holding a “Montague Intermediate School” mug of hot chocolate in one hand, drinking it greedily.
I am glancing around this unfinished room, seeing work that needs to be done.
I [...]
Pictures at an Exhibition
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Life Dream on 11. Jun, 2008 | 9 Comments
Let’s talk about what we’re doing here. It’s absurd; we’re far away from our loving families, we work on our house 12+ hours per day, I haven’t shaved my legs in…I don’t even know how long, we’re exhausted. We don’t take time off. We have various specks of paint and putty and caulking embedded in [...]
The Painted Veil
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Personal on 11. Jun, 2008 | 3 Comments
I’ve never thought of myself as a person who dislikes bugs. I recognize their place in the circle of life; they eat other bugs, they are fodder for birds, they can be pollinators and fertilizers–bugs are the life-blood of our eco-system!
When we began announcing that we would be moving to the Maritimes, in retrospect I [...]
