An Update

I know, I know, it's been ages but in all fairness I 've been really busy. The house has turned into a major project and we are not even half way through it.
The month of August has turned into a month off.The deck seemed to take forever and as it grew larger the weather turned hotter and hotter which slowed us down. No-one wants to expire of heat over a deck!
Or the garden, that never ending energy sucker!I am happy to work in a garden anywhere any time but when it's 40 Celsius and the sweat is so bad I can't see then it's another thing altogether.
We miscalculated on the garden both on the amount of work needed and the curse of the thistle people who will survive at any cost. I know they have a job to do but I ask you...
However there is now more veg than weed so things are a little less grim. The Scarborough clay is still horrible but a few seasons of mulching should help there.Lake Ontario is at our door so watering is not a problem either seeing as we are in a drought.
We still have bathrooms to renovate, hall floors to replace and wood floors to refinish. Then attention turns to the basement which will become a finished apt.All the money we made on selling 63 Victoria has turned into our kitchen and deck and garden as well as painting the house from top to bottom,replacing a truly weird back door, and buying new appliances.
Oh, I nearly forgot the gas furnace we had installed and the tankless hot water heater.The cost of oil over the winter was astounding so that had to be done as well.
Blimey when I look at what we have done over the last seven months with a lot of help both paid and unpaid I'm a bit amazed. Well we couldn't have done it alone.
However we are in retreat mode as we have to replenish the coffers and that will take some time. Nothing more gets started until we have more money and the weather has cooled down.
We buckled and bought two window rattlers as there were a few nights that were hot and humid beyond belief.Working in the heat is not a pleasant thing nor is trying to sleep in it either.
No humour in this post. Sorry just too hot and bothered to be funny. Will have a go later when and if it cools down.Right now the deck, a beautiful thing is calling. Along with the cicadas.