Open House Door Prize: Interior Design Advice & Throw Pillows
As promised, please find our first update regarding door prizes at the Open House on October 9. If you are in need of some interior design advice, this first prize is the one you should be after. Blu Dot Interiors in Ottawa has graciously donated a gift certificate valued at approximately $100. The lucky winner … Read more
A Rural Internet Solution
I had blogged earlier on our challenges to hook Crowder House up to the interwebs. Beyond not receiving conclusive answers from service providers, the costs associated with connecting us to wireless internet were prohibitive and committing – with three year contracts for service I am hearing is shoddy. In fact, the whole endeavour would have … Read more
An Open Invitation – Crowder House Invites Guests
While we don’t expect to be finished with our renovations at Crowder House by then, we are eager to open the doors of our new home on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 from 12 to 3. (You are welcome to stay longer but the main activities listed below will take place during this time.) Beyond sharing … Read more
We Found A Fence – and a Composted Composter
It was such a lovely day yesterday, our friend Richard and I were lured into the wilderness and absorbed with clearing the fence row beside Crowder House. Oddly, after months of home renovations, gardening – if cutting back thick dead vines can be called such – was refreshing and addictive. For some reason our camera … Read more
Something pretty, instead of something ugly…
Both the Man and I are suffering from some autumn cold. Naturally, we are looking forward to the repairing of our wood stove tomorrow so that things might warm up again after summer’s rather abrupt end some time last week. With the residents of Crowder House sick, you can imagine that there has been little … Read more
Spencerville Fall Fair – This Weekend
Looking for something to do this weekend? Why not try an old-fashioned Canadian fall fair? The Spencerville Fall Fair, in operation since 1854, opened last night and will run throughout the weekend. While the Fair offers a variety of modern entertainment, it also boasts a number of agricultural activities more reminiscent of a traditional Canadian … Read more
Working in a Mess
I hate clutter. It messes with my mind. Makes things difficult. All I see is that bag that needs unpacking but can’t be because the shelf upon which the contents would rest has still not been attached to a wall. Or that box with all of the things which had formerly been cluttering a desk … Read more
Open House Delayed
As some of you are already aware, the Man and I are planning on opening Crowder House up to visitors once it is ready. Perhaps ambitiously, we had originally targeted September 18 as the ideal date – not too cold, so people could roam outside and, we had hoped, it would have given us enough … Read more
It’s been a hard day’s night…
…and we’ve been working like dogs. And this is to say nothing. I have avoided posting anything on the move or the chaos that has ensued, because frankly, it’s a mess. In many ways the move was anticlimactic and discouraging. Two months of hard work, only to find that we were far from finished. The … Read more
