Under the plum trees: Star light, star bright...

First off, here is the rock from yesterday's move, complete with the solar light.

Today there were two projects on the go.. one inside and one outside.

The day started for me over coffee... my contractor called me while I was enjoying my morning cup to ask me how soon I could get to site. He was working on the rough in of the bathroom today and needed my opinion of the exact placement of the tub. Yes, the tub was finally coming out of the box!

So the decision was to centre the tub under the window with a nice little ledge all around. It does mean that some water may want to linger there and I will have to wipe the area dry, but a place is needed for a candle, cup of tea or a glass of wine... You get the idea.

Somehow the window is higher -maybe six inches - than I had originally planned. Not sure how that occurred, but it will be okay. Off went the shoes and I climbed in for the first time. Yes, I actually bought this expensive tub without ever having been in one! It was a perfect fit and will be a great deep soak! With the higher main floor and the higher window, my original plan of looking out at trees and flowers in a private garden will not really work out .... I will be enjoying the blue skies, the overcast and cloudy skies and of course, the starry nights.

Next up was the shower area.

Then later in the day after a few errands, I dropped back in to see that the pocket door housing was in place.

Voila, my bathroom!

So excited I was, that I had to cart up my sink and vanities from downstairs to check out the spacing.

The vanity will be raised up six inches higher with a kickerboard support.

The plan is for the cats to go in the side of the sink vanity, walking through to the litter box which is hiding in the second vanity.

The top of the second vanity will be a tiled counter with towel hanging somewhere above.

Some of errands included checking back at the tile store to confirm the selections made.

I SO can't wait to see the tile in bathroom! Although I took a picture, I will keep the surprise!

While my contractor stayed inside the crew were working outside in the on again, off again rain today... It was deck building day!

Joist hangers up, it was time for the pillar supports to be trimmed down.

And then later when I returned....

There had been some earlier difficulties putting the pins through this pillar, but it finally came together.

Then up for the view....

I was chatting with the neighbour when suddenly from the yards across the street the local deer family bounced over to say hi. The deer took one look at me and pranced over the neighbours fence instead of visiting my yard.