Laying down the concrete

I have been a really lazy blogger this last month. I think the last one I posted was in September, right before the Grand Final. The Grand Final was a good night, we ended up with about 20 odd people turning up to the event, Geelong taught Collingwood a lesson and Jimmy Bartel played one of the better games I have seen in a Grand Final for a while. Also at the Grand Final I had a bit of a tussle with Jason Webb of Downunder Travel fame. He decided that he wanted to talk to me about certain things, I asked that we have this discussion another time, however we ended up laying our cards on the table so to speak right there at Bottlescrew Bills. By the end of the night there were a lot of wobbly legs but very happy people. Winter is fast approaching, even though we are teased with some nice days, those of us who have been here for a winter or 2 know that it is just that, a tease. Lee and I decided at the start of October that it was probably a good idea to winter proof our house. What needed to be done before the nasty cold comes in: - Window well cover for the basement window - Replace floor in mud room - close in mudroom - new storm door The window well was easy, found one at Totem which fit perfectly. The mud room on our house when we purchased it was in a state of decay. The room has windows cut in the side walls, they were covered with rotten wood which we knocked out and replaced with cement board, insulation and silicon sealing. The floor was also rotten wood which we pulled up and replaced with a slab of concrete. All that is left is the storm door. The storm door is the most difficult task, our house is 100 years old and back in the day when it was built no standards had to be followed. The standard door height in Canada is 80 inches, the door height on our mud room is 72 inches so I am currently searching around for a place that makes custom sized storm doors. Once this is compelted our house is winter proofed! It is amazing what we have done to the place in the last 5 months. I look forward to looking back in a couple of years time at the pictures we took when we moved in and compare it to after all the work is complete. Already the front interior looks completely different. This weekend we are going paintballing. I can't wait! It has been a few years since I last went. Last time was in Brisbane and it was a stinking hot day! This time it will most likely be about +5c or cooler since we will be really close to the Rockies at Bragg Creek. I will write about it more next week :).