Another Weekend Cometh

Well, here we are again, at the threshold of another weekend in the Loops. I have been away at conferences for the last while, and work is rushing full-steam ahead to the final hour. Today is officially my last day as the Transportation Engineer and Monday morning I will be the new Drainage & Design Engineer with the City of the Loops. WOOWEE!
As I just mentioned, I was attending a conference in Kelowna for the last week on the topic of Sustainability. It was excellent - an overload of information, however, but inspiring nonetheless. I had the great pleasure of having supper with Twyla and Gil (and baby Tia) one night, and meeting with Michelle for dinner (while she enjoyed a hot-chocolate!) another night. While I was away, Daryl returned on Wednesday from the Yukon to an empty house. Poor punkin! And yesterday (Thursday - for those of you without a calendar) he left for Tumbler Ridge, set to return this evening. So YAY!
As far as house Reno's go, we are planning on completing the main floor floors (tile installation and hard-wood flooring around) over the next week. I hope that the slate tiles we want are in stock. We don't need a huge quantity - so fingers crossed!
It is suppose to be a spectacular weekend, so I'm very excited. Lots of hiking and fall/winter preparations in order. I might even try and get the Christmas lights up! Photos to follow...I promise!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend as well!

Post Long-Weekend Post

Greeting and Salutations! What a wonderful long weekend it was in the loops, except that Daryl was away. I got so much stuff done around the house...maybe it was a blessing that he wasn't there! I made a honey-do list for myself on Friday and attacked with a vengeance. Only one thing remained on Monday night...I never got around to vacuuming the car...oh well!

I've never eaten so much cheese! On Saturday night (maybe it was Sunday?) we had a raclette/fondue with all sorts of yummy extras like potatoes, roasted peppers, pickles, mushrooms, garlic shrimp, olives...YUM YUM YUM! I thought I was going to burst...now I know why we only do that once or twice a year!

The weather wasn't fabulous, but there was lots of rainbow spotting going on!

I set up our computer table and the new (new-to-us) computer so we finally have a home office of sorts! YAY! Next step...internet at home!
I have no photos to share of this weekend...but here is one from the party in Kelowna...crazy friends!

The Hall

The halls connecting the front entrance to the bedrooms has been laid and looks amazing!I didn't want a simple 45 degree angle cut on the floors, but rather asked for a herringbone effect. Apparently, if we had this professionally installed it would have cost about $10,000 according to Daryl, due to the extensive time and precision required. I think they did a marvelous job...you wouldn't know they weren't professionals! What happens when you push just a bit too hard!

Guest Room

And this is the progress we've made with the other guest room and the hardwood floor installation. It looks absolutely amazing...and the room is open for visitors!

Guest Room

The hardwood floors have been installed in the guest room. WOOHOO!

Halloween!

Here are some spooky photos of some of the decorations we had this year. As I have been stricken ill, I wasn't 100% in the mood for Halloween - such a bummer cause we had such great plans. But the night was a success anyhow!

Rising from the garden!!!

Even Chow was looking over his shoulders!