Obstacles Will Forever Be Obstacles until Dealt With
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors, Prince Edward Island on 28. Feb, 2010 | 5 Comments
We heat our house solely with wood. We keep a week’s worth of firewood on hand in a bin near the door.
Weekly, as the firewood bin starts to look empty, there are a few stragglers at the bottom of the bin. There’s a rotten piece, a skinny piece that’s way too long to fit inside [...]
Cold Winter Morning
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors, Personal, Prince Edward Island on 31. Dec, 2009 | 27 Comments
Sometimes I have occasion to drive to Charlottetown, PEI’s capital, to do business. And sometimes I have to show up there for 8:30am. In the winter, an 8:30am appointment in Charlottetown sees my morning as follows. There’s no jaw-dropping twist to this story; the following is just a simple scene from my simple life.
I am [...]
Some Peoples’ Idea of Relaxation
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Life Dream, Personal on 22. Nov, 2009 | 10 Comments
It’s late morning. Sunday. We’ve had breakfast, and we’re sitting in our home office, looking at each other from our desks.
I’m still wearing my pyjamas and big floppy white socks. We’re both splayed out on our office chairs, facing each other. My legs are sprawled out in front of me; my posture is atrocious.
“I’ve got [...]
Country Driveway Gets a Face Lift
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors, Prince Edward Island on 28. Oct, 2009 | 24 Comments
We’ve done everything ourselves with our own hands.
We sold our urban condo without a realtor. We drove across Canada hauling all our junk in our own trailer (in the middle of Winter) and moved across the country. We bought a house with no advice. We replumbed the entire house. We reshingled the steep roof. We [...]
A Frog in the Hand
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House on 12. Oct, 2009 | 6 Comments
I was upstairs, inside, thundering away on my keyboard. Fingers flying, ideas flowing.
I heard Cameron calling my name from outside. I opened the window in our office and hung my head out Rapunzel-style. Looking down, I saw Cameron smiling up at me, saying “Frog, I’ve got a frog!”
I smiled and bent my head back inside [...]
This is our Bedroom
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Personal on 10. Oct, 2009 | 10 Comments
This is our bedroom.
I wake up, without an alarm. Without moving my body, I glance at the clock on the slightly knicked bedroom dresser. The clock, a maroon, analogue knick-knack reads 8:15am. The second hand is nearing the half-hour. The noise is audible as the hand beats out its message second after second. The bedroom [...]
Challenges of Working from Home
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House on 01. Aug, 2009 | 19 Comments
Yes, those raspberries and cherries came from our wild, untamed garden and property. No, I do not have a semi-related story to tell. (I wrote one last year around this time that might suffice.)
Why am I pawning you, dear reader, off on a year-old blog post? Because these days I am so brain-dead by the [...]
Buying a Massey-Ferguson 135 Diesel Tractor
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors on 01. Jun, 2009 | 25 Comments
We just bought a Massey-Ferguson 135 diesel tractor.
Love them or hate them, we’ve now got one; a little 1972 Massey-Fergusun 135 tractor is sitting in our yard.
Night has almost fallen and it’s dark outside, but Cameron is still puttering around outside–battling the mosquitoes at dusk–tinkering with our tractor.
The tractor context
Buying a tractor has been [...]
Last Piece of Drywall
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House on 29. Mar, 2009 | 15 Comments
When we purchased our house, the walls were covered in 100-year-old plaster instead of gyproc (also known as drywall). We stripped the plaster off of every wall (like this) and hung new drywall/gyproc.
We finished stripping the old plaster off a long time ago, but putting up 120 sheets of drywall has taken almost a year.
The [...]
Dish Washing Tips
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Personal on 22. Mar, 2009 | 14 Comments
About a year ago, we tore our kitchen apart during our home renovation, and we still haven’t put it back together yet.
We haven’t installed kitchen counters, a kitchen sink, or kitchen cabinets. As a result, we’re still washing dishes upstairs in the bathroom sink. It has been going on for so long now that it’s [...]
