Back at it.....

After an unexpected break in the proceedings Mr. M is now back at it.  The cables are done, all pulled for all the circuits.  Cables, cables everywhere, and not a light that works (yet)…

The heat pump is all wired in,...

And its on to pigtailing… I might not have read the book, but I'm pretty sure this isn't what they mean...

Pigtailing - the act of preparing the ends of the wires before the outlets are fitted....

Mr. M is hoping that he can get his rough electrical inspection completed this week, and then it will be onto covering it all up, insulation time!!

Spring has definitely sprung.  We had some pretty heavy April showers and then the tap got turned off and we had 3+ weeks of dry weather with a stiff breeze which quickly dried everything out. Thankfully this last week we have had some lovely May rain. 

I picked the last of this Springs cauliflowers, they are so yummy....

And my Summer garden is powering through all the weather it is getting and is all planted up for another season....

 

Watch this space!

Lighting circuits are nearly completed, it's illuminating....

No blog for a couple of weeks, watch this space...

Cables and rain...

Basically this week is just like the title suggests...

Cables, white and yellow and orange.....

And rain, lots of rain this weekend....

Electric Light Orchestra!

It's been a while, what's been happening?  Mostly electrics. Pulling cables...

And then some plumbing.....the upstairs bathroom toilet.  We are having a wall mounted toilet and so the cistern is inside the wall, turns out you can buy these from England and have them shipped for less than they cost in 'Merica!  It's German, and so I bet that changes after Brexit. 

"vote leave if you want to poop for pounds, vote remain if you want to poop for pennies"...

We've had a lovely sunny weekend, and the girls had their boyfriends from Washington to visit...

I've been getting my garden in order.  I have seeds started in the greenhouse, and my potatoes have been doing some sprouting....

Today they got settled into their bins...

Mr. M is putting me in a new bed, this is going to be home to additional dahlias and cutting flowers, I am dedicating 2 beds to flowers this year....

I also have carrots, radishes, beets and parsnips in the ground, (coincidently we just ate the last parsnip from 2018 today).  Won't be long and we will be enjoying this years harvest.  I still have some overwintering cauliflowers that are now starting to develop heads, they taste so good.  I am so pleased I continued to grow something through the winter, even one thing everything week or so makes everything else taste better.

I did this and I did that....

This week it was some of this, some of that and some of t'other….

More light boxes..

Venting in the downstairs bathroom...

Another sliding door mechanism being put in between the guest bedroom and bathroom.....

Something fancy for internet, telephone cables, our very own media station!

And finally it takes 5 months to put shingles on the wall, and just a couple of minutes to cut them off, another outside socket placement that was previously forgotten....

February was a tough month weatherwise for the Pacific Northwest, snow and rain was in abundance,  We ended up with 19 inches for the month, which nearly beat our last recorded high of  20 inches in October 2016.  Thankfully March has started off the opposite... Soon be Spring!