Making progress on getting back to the Drawlyn

It's been a long time since we posted to the old blog. It's time to rectify that situation. :-)

For a long time we had not made any progress on our plan to get back to the Drawlyn. Grant's job situation didn't make it easy to work at home. With the transition to a different team, that has changed. Now, as long as he has an Internet connection, he can login to work.

So now it's time to get the plan to move down to Saint John, New Brunswick into high gear.

The first step was to start decluttering and getting rid of things we no longer needed/wanted (or well, didn't want too much). Now, we've moved on to fixing up the house so it shows well.

Recently we went down home and visited for a week, and looked at a few houses while there.

The plan is to move to Saint John to be with family, and start building the "dream home" on the property.

While we were there, we visited Laura's aunt and uncle, Pat and Jim, at their 'Camp' and Sugarbush operation. We had a great time. Here are a few pictures from the visit.

It was a gorgeous day for a walk in the woods, collecting sap.
The dog was running around like a crazy thing after being in town on a leash for all her walks. All the hills, woods and streams are Jordan heaven. Here she is posing on a mossy boulder.




Here you can see some sap being collected.









As I said, we've been making some progress on the house. We are just finishing up the kitchen and bathroom, and here are a few pictures of the progress and what's left to do.














The kitchen is almost done. We got rid of the extra pantry, painted and trimmed the walls, painted and replaced the hardware on the cupboards among other things.






Still to do: install a different set of hinges and hardware on the cupboard over the stove.







Here's a view of the dining room all set up and ready for poker:











The living room was a big job. It took a few coats of primer to cover up the previous color scheme. The new coat of paint and trim really dresses it up.

Within a week we should be ready for the all important dressing and staging of the place. New curtains throughout and art back on the walls and new furniture arrangement to show the place to its potential. It's been a great place to live so we want others to see that too.

Who knows, maybe the place will have hens again.

Cheers,
Grant and Laura