Doesn't look like we got much done, but...

We've been so busy, something to do all the time and it's been hard to get to the blog. But at last here I am and I'll try and catch you up on what has been going on.

So far, we've pulled up all the carpet, Don has bashed out the woodstove backing brick, painted some of the trim and gotten a cement floor poured in the basement. We did that to try and fix the musty dirt basement smell that was coming upstairs and it has already improved tremendously. Someone here said their basement was like that and they'd gotten used to the smell, but we just felt that we didn't want to get used to it. That contractor also put jacks under and lifted the house just a little in the centre. It's not perfect, but it is kind of like doing a facelift to a 70 year old woman. She looks a bit better, but face it, the wrinkly neck and hands still tell you she's a 70 year old woman. So the floor still slopes a bit, but it won't go any further!

We bought our lawn tractor and now Don is my lawn man. I don't have a pool so I can't have a pool boy, but he can be my lawn man. We also bought a little tractor (just a little one) with a scoop and a woodchipper and a snowblower on it. The woodchipper will come in handy when we cut some trails in the woods behind our house. The one picture is taken from inside our woods. You can see our house in the background.

Ambra and Sierra got here safe and sound and stepped off the trailer as casually as if they had been here before and as if all the travelling had been nothing to them. The man who brought them said they were a pair of the best horses he'd ever shipped. Well mannered and calm about getting into the trailer each morning. I was such a proud mum. My girls didn't embarrass me by turning into monsters when I wasn't there to chastise them! This morning I took Sierra out for a little ride around the front of our place and even though she couldn't bare to leave Ambra in the barn, she was good and listened to me and didn't get all goofy anxious. Again, I was so proud! She's a lovely horse (I'd forgotten how pretty the two of them are). I just need to get them into a regular excercise program because they are looking a little flabby.

It is raining today and not good for doing outside work so Don and I are going to get busy pretty soon here and steam off some wallpaper. Then I will be able to paint, then we can get someone to re-install our woodstove wall to code, and then.....