Visitor

A little bird dropped by. Plump little fellow--looks like a black-capped chickadee. We don't usually find them on the sunporch windowsills.

May Flowers?

Yet another record-breaking storm! I finished installing the new bathroom sink (and I must say, it was brutal. It is hard to believe anyone who has ever installed a sink had anything to do with either the vanity or the tapset. Madness!), and then went to the village. The roads were at their worst--I don't think they were ever this bad in January or February. I saw several sets of skid marks leading to the ditch, and even a street sign that had been knocked down--it was propped up against a power pole.

Brief Respite

It really looks as though we could have an early Spring--the snow has retreated so much that you can see the debris we hurled out of the bathroom window during the renovation! Overall, we have received relatively little snow; it is pretty thin on the ground in the woods. I recall that the first few years here (about 23 years ago now) were quite dry, so much so that our well pump was always on the verge of sucking air. Perhaps we are in for another hot, dry summer.

April Snows

High winds sent me scurrying from my bed to shut the garage doors last night. This morning, I woke up to this. Throughout the morning, heavy THUMPS told me that it's warming up outside. The snow slides off the roof and crashes down--quite a bit of it for a LATE APRIL FLURRY!
Down with snow!

Taps

This is a milestone, of sorts. Today we finished connecting and testing the hot and cold water AND the drains for the bathroom renovation. All done. Now we really get moving.

Any Old Iron

When Boris visited pre-Covid, back in early February, we carried the old iron bathtub downstairs and threw it out the front door. There it rested until today, when I broke it up with a sledgehammer. It was quick work--about a quarter of an hour. However, I kept this piece, with some lettering on it. I can read "Port Hope" at the top, "MADE IN CANADA," and "8-55" at the bottom. The other two lines are difficult to make out. The third might read "5 FT," which was the actual length, and "F-20." Of the second line, I can almost make the end: "ERION," but that's just a guess.

The Sky's the Limit

I hate doing a job twice, but this IS the second ceiling we've put up in the bathroom, the previous one having gone up . . . about 20 years ago. That's the vent fan on the left, 110cfm I think, and this time it will be wired independently of the light switch, so we won't have to be greeted with a sonic blast every time we enter--not that this fan is loud. We also replaced the fan--twice in fact. The first two were identical units: small and loud. This one is larger and much, much quieter.