Some concrete progress

There is nothing more real than concrete. That is, now that the foundations are in place, our reno finally has made the transition from vaporware to reality. Suddenly, we think, there are visible results for all the time and expense to date.

Just to fortify this impression, at the end of our visit yesterday our contractor handed us a bill for something shy of $40,000 -- fortunately the maple between garage and house is still standing and I could lean on it for support.

A walk around the foundations showed that yes, indeed we will have a very fine view but basement will be sticking out of ground quite a bit and rather unsightly. A lengthy discussion with contractor Peter about the siding, a relatively new product made in Quebec see http://www.kwpproducts.com/  Ecology is a big consideration and this engineered wood looks good and meets our specs.

However, Bob very concerned re fire rating -- guess the cedar shingles on the old house that ignite at a touch of a match were never an issue! In fact, maybe we were waiting all this time for it to burn down!

Upstairs in the old house the bathroom is crying out for me to do something. On the drive back to TO, made a quick visit to Bathworks in Barrie to get this project underway.

Our mobile home still hasn't arrived. Fields are tooo wet and driver is waiting until they dry out -- based on weather to date, maybe this never will happen and the back-and-forth to TO will go on indefinitely!