In Honour Of Spring

I've been thinking about Daffodils. I've been thinking of Crocuses. I've been thinking of Hyacinths and Lilys too. In honour of those beautiful flowers I've changed my colours. This is the time of the year when a trip to my local Canadian Tire store sees me trekking home with a variety of bulbs and soil to plant for forcing..... I'm actually later this year than is usual for forcing bulbs. Generally I start in late January and have them ready for the latter part of March. I love a few flowers in the house when winter is still dragging its feet and has not departed north yet and forcing bulbs gives me lots of flowers in the house.
Mostly I like Hyacinths, but I have tried Lilies and Crocuses too.

The days are getting longer now and the sun reaches farther and farther around the westering windows of our house in the evenings. Hubby and I have made our annual forray to the local financial institute for the RRSP contributions of tax time. And more importantly, we have taken the initial steps toward the Renovations to our home in the form of financing. I will be traveling next week so I cannot do anything for the time being. But when I return I will be contacting the contractor and getting a quote for the work that we want done. Then next, to satisfy the banks requirements, we have to get an appraisal on the house for both now and after the renovations are done. After that, it's just a matter of signing the documents and then the work can begin.

Now when I speak of renovations, I mean Renovations. I don't just mean painting the floor and moving furniture around. We will be removing the majority of the roof to accommodate a new set of dormers to open up the rooms upstairs and we will be closing in a deck to accommodate a new office and den/studio. If we can, we will also be putting in an ensuite. And with no more than a change of entrance to the current bathroom we will gain a laundry room albeit small. There may even be a cold storage room too. It all depends on how much the whole thing costs. I am hoping that the office will accommodate a small wood cooking heater/stove so that when the power goes out we have some kind of back up.

So the renovation ideas abound. Spring is just around the corner and I can't wait to see the changes this place will undergo. We are talking about the new flooring and what type of windows to use, we are talking about sinks and toilets and tubs.... yes tubs....(I'll be able to sit in a tub again after 7 years of showers)! We are talking about closets with cedar linings. And with all that we are talking about wood stoves and code requirements..... I'm even talking about a new little car. It is all rather facinating and a whole lot exciting.

Hubby leaves the majority of the design elements to me.... he wants nothing to do with it. Depending on when we can start, we will do the sunroom first if it is too cold to move out. Then we will move out for the summer months into the tent trailer and give the contractor time to remove the roof and put in the dormers.

I'll be posting pictures here as the Renovations continue..... this is what it looks like now....