They Came, They Saw, They Helped.

We had company coming!
My mother and her sister.
It was time to "pull up our socks"!!

We set up the living room for visiting and having tea in. Turns out the house was never warm enough for actual sitting down and chatting but Hey! the motivation got the job done anyways :)

For some reason this is the only picture I took before throwing sheets all over the furniture so we could sit down in work clothes etc.  (as of today the floor trim is up). 

It took two trips to the dump and some re-bagging (the dump won't accept stuff in black bags, first time we "got away with it" since we didn't know better) but the pile of garbage got whisked away before the company arrived. 

Not sure that the burned away grass looked any better than the pile, but it is nicer using the clothes line without it there. And it will be a lot easier getting the wood stove in when it comes.

It was wonderful to have family come to see "what we have gotten ourselves into"! 

Gave them the fifty-cent tour for FREE, of course! haha

Went to the Farmers Market. Their being here was the motivation I needed since I hadn't been able to tear myself away from the work long enough to go check it out before now. 

Also checked out a Sheep Farm and Shop that I have been wanting to see. Really cool place!

The cottage they rented was SUPER sweet. Beautiful place where we ate all our big meals and for us "deprived folks" enjoyed the use of the shower. :) 

We even put them to work priming clapboard that the neighbour brought over for us. Just enough to replace some rotten pieces. (In picture above you can see the one white strip, where one is replaced)

Now we have some colour swatches here to mull over. We aren't 100% sure what colour our house is going to be, we just know it won't be yellow when we are finished with it. 

We waved good-bye yesterday morning. :( 

A sweet but kinda short visit.

They still had three days of travel ahead as they had driven here, but the holiday was over for us, no more goofing off! 

Back to work, 

wallpapering, 

painting, 

caulking, 

trimming,

cleaning the basement,

.....preparing for winter. (which is another blog but entailed, calling the oil furnace people, bagging sawdust and digging away rocks.... among other things) 

We are pretty sure winter will be here before we are quite ready for it.

So the adventure continues! Gotta find blog material somehow!! 

Thanks Mom and Aunt Diane for coming to see us. We appreciated your enthusiasm and encouragement, not to mention all the thoughtful gifts and suggestions! Safe travels! xo