Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
So close to being finished… after buying about 250 ft of 1×4 and painting it first with white primer, and then with 'rice pudding' (no not actually painting it with rice pudding – its an off-white paint colour) it was time to nail it up. There were a few tricky angles to deal with, and…
So after the somewhat gruelling experience of painting the cottage gunmetal grey (using oil based primer), the next step was to paint it the final red colour that matches the house. The great thing was that this is a water based paint and it goes on way way easier that the primer (at least in…
It has always been in our plans to paint the cottage to match the house, but somehow we have never quite got there …. until now. So since last Saturday we have been hiring scaffolding, buying paint, balancing up ladders and generally getting messy. The first step was to paint the raw siding with a…
September is normally a month of abundance in the garden – the hard work of tilling, planting, weeding etc begins to tail off, and we can harvest all the bounty. One thing that is noticeable this year is that normally we have been getting a steady supply of all the good stuff since July/August, but this…
So as well as potatoes, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, zucchini, peas, beans, kale, watermelons (optimistic I know) etc here are some other things that we find in the veg patch: On the like list dragonflies (often perched on a garden stake) pacific tree frogs worms ladybugs other interesting and beneficial creatures!…