Sunday, June 30, 2019

Stuff it in.....

Mr. M has been making headway and getting the insulation started.  He began with the little dormers, and he first had to add wood to fatten out the rafters to allow for extra insulation, and then he leveled out the walls.   Also, there was lots of additional pieces of blocking that needed to get put into the rest of the house in anticipation of insulation and wall boarding.

Little dormers with extra wood....

Precariously placed scaffolding allows you access to all areas whilst not meeting any health and safety requirements...

Then you just stuff it in...


Seal up the gaps with squirty cream expandable foam....

All 3 dormers are done ceiling and walls...
 
Just the rest of the house to do....

The 2019 harvest has begun.....



And my spectacular radish harvest :) :) :) I officially give up (for now)

And the raspberries are starting to come good,,,,

What's in the future harvest basket? cucumbers...

Patty pan squash....

And peas - so many peas please....

And my random volunteer runner bean came up again this year, it's way ahead of my main crop of runners and has plenty of flowers.....

Flowers everywhere, the bees are happy...



The nasturtiums are looking particularly splendid right now.....


See you in 2 weeks time.

Sunday, June 16, 2019

No photos and then some photos....

Mr. M didn't provide me with many photos this week, but plenty of things have been happening.  On the electric front he finished up his low voltage cables


and he got 3 more inspections signed off, electrical, rough mechanical and final framing...

The rest of the work is much more behind the scenes.  We are moving on to insulation, so much research and discussion *yawn*, finally decision made and order placed.  Then lots of blocking had to be added to the framing that eventually the wall board will be nailed to.  So this coming few weeks will mostly be about covering up all the plumbing, ducting and electrics.  Mr. M  could've just thrown it all in there after all, no one will see how pretty it looks for much longer.

I on the other hand have taken lots of photos of my garden for this weeks update. We got a day of rain about a week ago and then we just had a mini-heatwave for a few days, consequently it's all been getting a grow on.

Sweet Williams and nasturtiums, these overwintered and so have come back and flowered earlier than normal this year...


Cornflowers also overwintered and are so pretty, they are perfect for bringing into the house.....

 
The final overwintering plant is lobelia, this is popping up all over the place, in the beds, and in my pathways, I leave it wherever it lands and it is gorgeous....
 
Despite living with the ducks my dogwood tree is full of flower...


The new wildflower bed is poised, waiting to break out into song bloom...

The veggies aren't wanting to let the flowers steal their thunder and so are growing hard.  Peas please....


Potatoes, nearly as tall as me!

Raspberries, won't be much longer...

Scored some free pepper plants from the farmers market...

Beans are starting up the poles, and this year I am growing little patty pan squash instead of zuchinni, they already have some fruits...


Finally the carrots are outgrowing the beets and the radishes, one day in the future I WILL succeed in growing radishes, Me, I can't grow radishes, end of...

See you in 2 weeks folks.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Another Tick v.g.

Electrics are all done, just have to schedule the inspection, hopefully that will be this coming week.  Once the rough electrical (first fix) is signed off then the rough mechanical and the final framing inspection can be done.

Half a mile of wire apparently - who knew!

This week he finished up with the Coax/CableTV and Cat6 ethernet cables, for those luddites amongst us that's for the telly and the tinternet!!






Everything is wired into a "structured media center", as long as it works that is all I am concerned about.

 
It's June already, and my garden is getting it's pretty on.... 


 

Veggies are definitely on the grow....

This weekend I got my seeds planted up in the greenhouse for this years winter/2020 Spring garden, hoping to have carrots, cauliflowers, brussel sprouts and leeks, soup, soup and more soup!