our little cottage put back together

So this is the kitchen dining room, ceiling, windows, wallpaper & wainscoting all painted and finished up. The furniture is all put back and now our little cottage is homey again.

The Living room has the ceiling and all the windows and most of the walls painted.

Next to tackle is the bathroom & laundry room.

there will be more changes I'm sure but for now it looks great to us. Today the sun shone and it was 18C with a light breeze...lovely day.

That's it for now from Sand dollar cottage.

the continuing saga of renos at Sanddollar Cottage

Hello All we are back at the renos here at Sand dollar cottage, mostly finishing up what we started in the fall.

This is the new door, installed but not yet finished inside.


















This is the new door now finished! Alan did all the hard work I did the easy stuff, painting.

The Kitchen windows are still a work in progress

There's Alan working hard finishing off the window

these are the livingroom windows yet to be finished on the inside

These are the livingroom windows finished on the inside. Didn't Alan do a great job framing them in. I painted them. Aren't they lovely? now to rearrange the furniture, but before that finish the baseboards too.

We hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. We walked on the beach and climbed the rocks for an hour this am it was sunny but the wind was cold. Then we gathered up a bunch of sticks and twigs from the yard and I had a fire. It was just grand but we didn't have any hotdogs to cook. Oh well next time.

Well I guess thats it from the cottage.

Hope the Easter bunny finds you all next weekend and remember its all about new beginnings and Life. Ta Ta for now Janet

some more improvements

Well here we are at reno central again.

this is the heating duct in the kitchen, no range hood over the stove. this is the before picture

these are the after pictures. Notice the air duct is boxed in there is now a beautiful range hood and the second shelf is up, as well as the wall is finished beside the pantry shelf.

Carpentry work and wiring by Alan my sweetie, and I did the painting and generally assisted where I could.

we walked on the beach Thursday evening,

March 22,2012. Alan had shorts on and we walked in the water. The temp was 22 C. So beautiful, maybe that was our summer. Lets hope its a sign of things to come

a snow day feb29 2012

we had a snow day today It snowed all day and we stayed home from work
we when snowshoeing twice. the second time
I took some pictures of the snowflakes on my jacket

I used the macro on the camera

I really like these shots












A cluster of flakes on a pine branch














After our first venture outside it was snowing so hard I thought baking some brownies might be nice. Peanut butter chocolate brownies. Yumm

And then of course we had to sample it

with icecream....mmmm

warm brownies and icecream mmmmmm












A cute little loaded tree on the road













the path with old foot prints

Alan taking pictures, I'm under the tree boughs









Off he goes toward the shore

the ice is back lots of chunks

some of the chunks











I've taken this picture so many times but each time its just a little bit different.










here's a pretty birch tree for you to paint Judi

coming back home

when I got home, Alan was still walking, I got tired out

I shovelled some of the snow before I went in.













my snowshoes at rest, waiting for the next trip

Oh what a lovely time we have at our Sanddollar cottage.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures

bye for now

a walk in the snow with snowshoes

So It was a bright mild day here in Woodislands and we decided it would be a great time to try the snowshoes. I was concerned that I'd not be able to because of my hip. Well not to worry, it was great!
I had to take a lot of little rests but that made time for pictures.



He's Alan getting ready, he'd already snapped me into my shoes.









this is the sight that greeted us when we went through our path to the park. So Beautiful, look no shoe tracks yet.







this is our old camp sight

more pretty trees, we are so lucky to have such a beautiful spot to enjoy.

ha ha isn't he funny, I took a video of him swinging. He wanted me to get on the swing, but if I had gotten down there I'd not be able to get back up, wonky hip and all.

as we were walking we found this little heart in the snow. the wind was blowing the snow off the trees and it made lots of patterns but I thought this was just right for us.

the wintery beach the colours of the sky, water, and trees against the snow. So magnific!

our lovely beach














we even had some iceburgs....well not really they are ice chunks.

Oh my what a lovely day we had.

Thats it for now from Sanddollar Cottage, Alan has lunch ready, pouched haddock with lemon grass and asparagus with brown rice. I am so spoiled.

snow storm Feb 18,2012

our little cottage in the snow.
the snow fell straight down, no wind to push it around so the trees were frosted.
It was a very mild day.

Madonna and Lindsey's trailer is coated with snow

Nicki came down for a treat. She looks like a bear doesn't she.

This is the tree across the road

I even got out and shovelled a little, the deck, steps and the path to the lane way.