Happily Ever After
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Inspirations, Life Dream, Moving to PEI, Outdoors, Personal, Prince Edward Island, Projects, Video on 23. Jun, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve written over 200 articles here about our story of how we moved to Prince Edward Island. For months now I’ve known that I needed to close the book on the Whimfield chapter of our lives.
How does our story end? In true Whimfield style, it’s simple: we live happily ever after on this magical place [...]
PEI Gardening Tips (from a Novice)
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors, Prince Edward Island, Projects on 16. Aug, 2010 | 23 Comments
Cameron seems to think it’s my duty to tell you what’s going on in our garden. Therefore I share my PEI gardening tips from yours truly, a novice in the vegetable garden.
Already we’ve learned a lot for next year when it comes to growing vegetables.Here are my PEI gardening tips from an idiot. Please feel [...]
Pouring a Concrete Foundation Under an Old House
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 23. May, 2010 | 17 Comments
Oh, to be a blogger. To tell stories as they unfold. To keep you in my pocket as we ride this adventure that is life. To tell you, “Today I” and “This morning we” and “We’re about to.” It all takes courage, don’t you know?
But, you see, I am not that brave. I delay stories [...]
Jacking Up A House
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Prince Edward Island, Projects on 04. May, 2010 | 33 Comments
On Monday morning our house looked like this. See the photo above? Normal house. Almost level to the ground.Monday afternoon, steel girders were slipped underneath the house… See above?And by Monday evening, the house was jacked up in the air and dangling four feet above the ground.
Thankfully, like the driveway project, we’ve recruited experts to [...]
Open Letter to Our Steep Roof
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 04. Sep, 2008 | 12 Comments
Dear Steep Asphalt Shingle Roof,
For fifty years, you’ve been ignored; you grew weathered and ugly.
For fifty years, you’ve been leaking your teary sadness into the attic.
But, in 2008, we came into your life. We heard your silent cries and vowed to do something about your misery.
So we stripped you bare. Exposed you, naked, to the [...]