hello family and friends,
Well even though it’s a bit colder today spring is definitely here.
It’s amazing in just a couple days of the massive snow melts how the
grass is already starting to turn green. We drove to Charlottetown
today and you can see snipits of green in the fileds…..oh how it does
the souls good…the sun and the warmth and the new life:)
So we decided to take a well deserved adventure day on Sunday so we
packed up us and the dog and we drove to the east side of the island.
This was a nice drive since we have not been out the way yet. What a
beautiful day for a drive, one that was so needed.
We did start the reno on the back addition…..the nastiness is now gone
and the original walls are now exposed…..and guess what – its an
addition original to the house……we thought the addition was done in
the 70’s but it is actually the original wood shed and storage shed that
had access to the “indoor” outhouse. We were surprised to see the the
same studs and siding as in the house on the second floor:) but of
course sad it is going…..
We have been discussing what we want to do in the house and its exciting
to think that it won’t be long til the house is up …. new foundation
in place and we start on the renewing of the house. We will still have
demo on the main floor but it will be so nice to make the house look
nice:)
We go out now with the dog in the yard and discuss the changes we are
going to make in the yard and to the outside of the house….since we
have had a rough winter the house will need to be painted so that it
wont look so (as we call it) hideous……we will make it less
hideous…..this has become our new saying…to make it “less hideous”.
he he he he
so anyways the paint has been flaking and blown off by those wicked sea
air winds and the shingles are continuing to take a beating but on a
good note God is allowing the spring rains to hold off….thank you
God:)
Fishing season opened on tuesday but it has not been good to
fish…..with all the warm weather the snow has had a fast melt and all
the stream, rivers etc are so flooded that in some cases its not safe to
be at the edge of the river beds. the water is rushing down stream so
fast and so hard that the red waters are so full of mud the fish
wouldn’t be able to see the bait in the water even if the bait was on
their mouth. We have heard stories of avid (or maybe stupid) fishermen
dragging their boats up the Morrel River trying to get through the ice
so they can get to open water with their little boats…….
Fishing fever has hit hard this winter……
So we did wet our lines without any success…..but will try again later in the week once things calm down a little.
Well I cannot tell you how good it feels being out on the back of the
house these past couple warm days and man oh man its been so hot back
there……the warm weather is bringing more and more different birds to
our feeder as well. We have had robins as well so spring must be here,
the pair of kestrels has scared away the finches and song birds as well
the grackles have been bullies at the bird feeder so we changed the
feed over to a niger/song bird feed. With this change we should get rid
of the grackles and starlings……so they say.
So we have reclaimed some of the pine boards from the ceiling of the
addition and we intend to use it for our chicken coop…. We also went
to the local country coop store in Kensington and i can order my day old
chicks there……white egg and brown egg layers…..I can’t wait til
we start that new chapter it should be really cool have our own
free-range chicken eggs……
So it won’t be long til we will be spending a lot more time outside in
the garden. We have 8-10 trays of seedlings growing in our grow shelves
with more to come. Its exciting to be growing our fruits and veggies
for year round consumption, so planning our to preserve these foods will
be important, so canning, dehydrating, freezing etc will be a big part
of the plan:) Cool to know i will be making my own sauces, jams,
pickled items and soups etc….we will have direct control of what
ingredients go into our foods to….kinda neat:)
Well I better go for now but will have some more exciting stuff to write about in the next couple of weeks…
see ya for now:) love ya all hugs and kisses
Muddy Boots, Old Houses and The Farm 