The Door
This summer we bought a condo unit immediately adjacent to the one we already owned here in Vancouver, BC. So a lot of our time spent here this year has been preparing it for occupancy (furnishings, paint, network and telephone for example). And then there's
the door.
The two condos share two walls. One is a closet on one side and the kitchen on the other, the 2nd is a non-bearing wall. Our big project was to install a pocket door within that wall.
We got one quote for the work -- $2300, which, based on current exchange rates between the US and Canada, would be about US$2299.99 -- a lot in any case! However, Kathy's Dad was up for the task, so we "imported" him from Michigan to do/oversee the task. Scott and Jack did most of the "work work", Kathy took care of the substantial clean-up task. Since we're on the 11th floor, all the materials have to go up the elevator, and all the trash back down -- a bag at a time.
The work's almost completed. The dust could still be around for years.
PDF-based photo chronology here. Press ESC (or Mac equivalent) to exitLabels: Vancouver Summer 2007
Landing in Lund
We got back August 21st from the "end of the road" --
Lund, BC. Friends "
from India" (they live in North Vancouver, BC, and they're not Indians, actually) went up the inland waters between the "lower mainland" (the landmass that includes Vancouver, BC where we're spending our summers) in their boat. We drove up to meet them. It's about 100 miles, but requires not one but two ferries -- for a net average speed of about 13 mph. On of the pair is pictured
here, on the right side of the photo -- Libby.
The journey was scenic, but this region, while called the "
Sunshine Coast", didn't really live up to its name, for our weekend. But we brought dinner for ourselves and our friends, and prepared it on their boat, quaffed wine and swapped tales. Blake and Libby are great folks and we really enjoy their company.
The 2nd day we spent on the water with them, visiting nearby islands and cruising the scenery. Drank too much and talked too much.
Lund is sort of the "end of the road" -- really the last real town (full time population about 800) as you head north on Rt 101 along the Sunshine Coast. It has that small town community feel, no doubt enhanced by it being "Lund Dayz"-- an annual event with a flea market (benefit to the local fire department), music, clowns... apparently a big deal in a sleepy town.
Labels: Canada, Lund, Sunshine Coast, travel
New? Yes. Exciting? Occasionally
Ever think that you were the last one in the world to do something? Well, we've operated a
personal website since "before it was cool". But frankly, creating individual pages for our day to day "adventures" is pretty time consuming. Enter blog software! Sure we read the odd blog or two (check out
this one, from a
pastry school classmate) but we're a bit late in riding that technology wave. And we thought we were early adopters.
We'll give this a try instead of our home page's chronological "log", and leave the main website for topics with both depth and breadth.
Labels: introduction
