Not on the menu.

I picked a few plums on the weekend... And so did this guy...

He also ate all my lettuce and my fennel. 

I ate my first grown zucchini though. 

Today the grouting was done in the bedroom and the den. It still needs to be wiped clean, but I like it. 

Not much to add in pictures. 

I suspect tomorrow will most likely be grouting the hallway or part of the front room. At some point the window frames and door frames are put in. 

I saw this in bloom... 

Guess the deer don't like to eat it!

Progress is progress. Not tiny, but small.

Today's progress.....

Laundry area tiled.... Check

Hallway completed ... Check (Sorry for the sideways picture)

Threshold to bedroom with small filler tiles in place... Check.

Same thing for the den doorway... Check.

It was Friday and floor guy was just cleaning up when I stopped in. Apparently the wood stove guy was by the day before and was given a rough time line from floor guy. He did not contact the contractor.

Next week the grout will go down and the baseboards, windows sills and trim will be installed.

Not sure when the bathroom starts?? And we are also hoping for the kitchen cupboard delivery by the end of the week, but will probably be week after. 

Yes it is moving painfully slow, but like a long walk I once took with a sore leg ... Progress is progress.

.... I checked in with my fruits and veggies. Yellow plums are still a little green.

I guess I am growing lettuce for the deer... He was back again!

To town for a few errands then back to take a few more pictures with floor guy gone.

Hallway / den area.

Hallway / bedroom area

The front room.

TV on that wall, table below. Notice the expansion joint in the floor.

The view from the woodstove corner.

And looking back at that corner.

Looking outside the picture window... Focusing on outside.

Same view focusing on inside.

And a look out the slider by the wood stove corner.

It may look big on the outside, but as you can see on the inside its small. Not tiny, but small.

More walnuts than you can shake a cucumber at..

Well it's July 15, 2015.... I have owned my property for two years. I moved here 11 months ago. I completed my house design by November. Construction started in January. House is finished......?

The living room appears complete...

The kitchen looks complete....

Almost done around the wood stove platform. The fireplace guy called today asking if he can come and take a look... Referred to my contractor. 

Hallway almost done. Still no cable down in bathroom and shower walls not done yet.

Pile of tiles not yet in place for washer/ dryer corner.

Outside the yellow plums almost look ready. I picked some, but they still need a little longer...

Apples progressing well.

There are even some nice looking walnuts... More than last year!

I only picked a couple of buckets of plums.

Look I picked my cucumber, I wonder if any more will grow. I don't see any others yet...

Still waiting on zucchini...

Hopefully perfect light.

I went shopping today. I picked up some ceiling fans, a couple of electrical receptions with USB plug ins and (I hope, a perfect) outside deck LED light.. By the time I returned to my town, and then to site, the crew were gone for the day.

It does not appear too much was done today.... I think many tiles were cut and that takes quite a time. 

It also appears a few tiles were taken up, to be replaced. I think floor guy said they did not sit flush or something. On the cardboard I see his cut sheet check sheet, and to the left some skinnier tiles.

That little pile is most probably for the wall edge.

And then, although there are no mats down, I bet the little piles are the tiles needed for this washer/dryer space.

And a few stacked around here as well.

The cable is not down in the bathroom yet.

I picked a couple of test plums today and might pick more tomorrow. I probably should empty the tree by the weekend.

Crew a bit edgy??

On Saturday I came by to check on things... 

Look a cucumber... It still needs to grow a bit me thinks!

My first of most likely a few zucchini.

Inside the floor crew were working...

The front room is coming along.

The yellow plum tree is on daily inspection... They are almost an orange when they are ripe - if I remember correctly. The deer continue to disturb some, but no signs of any bears... Yet.

Alright Monday....

My bedroom is now a bit of a storage room....

And this is because the bathroom is now getting primed!!

The same tile will carry through in the bathroom, but the shower will be different, as will the walls around shower and tub.

I left for a few hours....

Because I asked a question or two and was asked to leave by floor guy so as not to bug him! Ha, banished again!

Anyhow the mats are down.

The front room is oh so close to being done... Just a few edge pieces.

Okay and the wood stove corner....

Almost time to start the kitchen! 

The house has a good empty house echo ... echo.. echo..

Baby green.

I dropped by the site late in the day and the floor crew were just cleaning up.  

Front room is looking great! Once again, you can see the wires have yet to be pulled up inside the wall.

Mats are down close to the wood stove. Even if there is no cable underneath that close to the wood stove, the floor still needs to be level.

The sides and top do not need mats. There will be some contrasting tile on the rise, but the same floor tile on the top. The wee wood stove will be black... as one may have expected.

I stood inside for awhile looking around trying to imagine my furniture, the colours that will be there and imagining what colour the walls might want to be....  

The baseboards will be simple.. something like 1 by 3 planks.

The crew said they would back tomorrow- Saturday! 

Time to finish up the front room?

Or perhaps the washer/ dryer nook....

I know the bathroom will eventually get done... But it will have to be emptied out first!

Here is the view from the hole in the wall. (The not so secret access from my bedroom closet to a kitchen cupboard void). One of the floor crew utilized this as a way to move from the back of the house to the front room as the tiles were fresh on the floor in the hall area. That is the living room!

Meanwhile in the green house.... A baby green pepper.