June 2011 Relay of Life In Prince Albert

This is my third Relay for Life, all of them here in Prince Albert.  Each year has been decidedly colder this then was the coldest.  Some of the pictures are not very good and a bit fuzzy but you will see why I've posted them.

Marg and Hilda have always collected me for this special time each of us being cancer survivors, added to our group this year was Dennis, Marg's Friend.

Yes we are as cold as we look.  Marg and I had to wear medium shirts and they would never fit over our winter coats, Dennis and Hilda lucked out with XL ones.

As you can see the Relay Groups were dressed for the cold.

This is the youngest group the "Tiny Tots" I am always impressed that even the youngest children take part.

Sorry this is fuzzy, but there is no way I can run ahead to get a better shot.  Vicki, a member of our congregation on the left holding the banner, put this group together.  I think you can understand the reason for their name The Hot Knockers" by the many pairs of bras hanging from their banner.



There were many on the track early in the evening not just the relay groups but those who were staying to watch... I was taking a break but was getting very cold.

 I always love to watch the lighting of the luminaries and then take pictures, especially the one on the slope that spells HOPE.  The number of people on the track was beginning to dwindle as were the spectators.

Marg and Dennis out walking trying to keep warm... I had just finished another lap and sat down and wrapped myself in a blanket, I was frozen.

The tents that were very much needed this year for the relay groups.

Hilda coming to check on me.

Marg always buys a luminary for me and adds something special for me.

This year I purchased a couple, one for Marg for being such a great friend and one for Evette's Mother-in-Law Rosa (they messed up the name by forgetting her first name and added it afterwards).

Rosa if you are reading this, Jesus has paid the price for all sin even the one of cancer, it doesn't take it away but the promise is that Jesus has suffered for all the sins of the world.

I feel it is an honour to be able to walk with the Cancer Survivors each year and to remember those who have lost the battle.

The Day After Move Day

I thought you would be interested in seeing what the house looks like at this very point in time.  Some of the rooms actually have things that will be in that room.

The game room (library)

The living room

Dining room

Kitchen area

Parson's bench

More kitchen

3rd bedroom / guest room

Outside bathroom

2nd bedroom

To be extention to the bathroom

To be: walk in closet

The master bedroom

So ther you are the day after the move and what we have to now find places for and make rooms habitable.  Richard is actually taking time now to work on our study/TV room.  I'm falling asleep so I think I shall take a nap.  Enjoy our mess!



Missed Character Features

I promised pictures of the ceilings that make this a craftsman style house actually when it was built it was called a bungelow because the bedrooms are in the roof line.

This is the ceiling in the living room.

This is the kitchen ceiling... we were bored one day and started pulling the wallpaper off... there is another layer of paper under the painted stuff.

I think that is all I forgot  to show you.  We hate the light fixtures in the kitchen.

The Basement

I know... who wants to see a basement of a house but if I'm going to show you our new home you have see where our office/study/TV room will be.

Not a great picture but this is the back porch... as you see it needs some work. 

We turn from the back porch to face the rest of the stairs down.

Laundry area.. this washer and dryer is now in our old house and front loads are here.

The other side of the laundry area... the previous owner left us their fish tank

This is will be the office/study/TV room... basically the main room we will live in.

A three piece bathroom, so no need to run upstairs.

The boiler and water tank... and a small portion of work benches that will become our pantry.

There is another storage room and space under the stairs but not really much to see there.

So there you are the final piece of the tour.

Another Change

I've taken Laura's advice and figured out how to change the background colour.  I still like the dark colours for the main part but I agree with Laura that it looked very dark with the background a dark gray.  I like the purple so does this look better?

Change is good... or is it?

I thought it was time for a change and if I can't get to change by moving into our new home right away I decided to change the look of my blog.

So did I choose the right template?  I think it goes with the dark wood of our new home so have gone with various shades of gray.  And move back to almost the same set up that I had originally.

Let me know what you think. 

Is there time to see upstairs?

Although our new home is a bungalow it actually has an upstairs, but the upstairs is in the roof line so means lots of interesting angles in every room.

We begin at the parsons bench and move to the left and head up the stairs.

All the floors up here have new hardwood floors which means the original floors have been covered up.

This will be the guest room and we are planning to put the sink back into this cupboard top there is not at closet in this room so we will need to work something out.

Now we check out the second bedroom, there are two windows one is a dormer; this room has the cupboard that you can see and also:

A built in dresser, plus a large closet; we may knock through to the one in the master bedroom to give this room a walk in closet.

Across the hall is the master bedroom, what would a master bedroom be without a fire place.  

See what I mean about the interesting angles.

To the right of the fireplace there is this door opening, and yes you do see another door on the right.

Remember this is all part of the master suite;  let's check the first of these rooms...

This room was probably known as the sewing room (it has two storage cupboards) we are thinking of making this room into a walk-in closet come dressing room for me.

The other storage cupboard.

These two cupboard doors will have to be kept closed, there is access to part of the ceiling/roof line which I'm sure at least one of our babies, if not both, would love to explore.

Let's check the other master suite room.

Not a very big room so maybe the boudoir.  Our plan is to see if we can expand the bathroom into this room so giving the master bedroom access to the bathroom without going out into the hallway.

The bathroom is not much bigger than a closet so please don't be shocked.

That's it... the bathroom... toilet one side of the room and sink on the other side with the bath against the wall.  The bathroom does not have a door just a curtain across the opening. 

This would have been the only bathroom in the house when it was built... how times have changed!

I'm sorry I forgot to show you the stairs!

It is wide with steps that my whole foot fits on.  I love the two windows on the landing and the way the stairs curve around.

This is the view from those landing windows.  The plan is to close the top of the dog run so Wynie and Katie can possibly go outside in the summer.

I know I missed many pictures that would have given, maybe, better views of those rooms, but I wanted you to see the angles of the ceiling in each room.  

There will be more pictures as we start making our move to our new home.

I know... what about the basement?

Here is your teaser for next time...the next stairs that we will travel down... later!