The Big Move

Today our builder started back on our site.  It was great to see the project moving again.  In the day our builder and his team (2 others) had put up all of the framing for the internal walls in the basement and all of the ceiling joists.  It was amazing to finally see the actual rooms and the sizes.  It was very difficult to imagine what it would look like when it was a slab of concrete.  It is also looking bigger now that the rooms are going in.

We are now also getting a feel for where the first floor level will be.  We knew it would be higher than the original ground level, but we didn’t know how high.  I am not sure if you can tell from the pictures, but, from the original ground level it is about 5 feet higher.

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As some of you may already be aware, I have been helping out a lady that had Labrador puppies, 10 of them.  I first met the puppies when they were 7 weeks old.  At 8 weeks old Nick and I took 2 off them (Rebel and Ebony) to the Labour day parade. (See the Labour day parade post for a couple of pictures of them then).  Over the weeks the puppy numbers became less and less as they found new homes to go to.  There are now just 3 left.  Ebony, Dotty and Rosie.

Today we decided to be brave and we took all 3 of them out for a walk together.  We walked them down the main street to the Trans Canada Trail, along the trail for a while and then back.  I can only imagine what we must have looked like from the back, with leads and dogs everywhere.  The pups are not great at walking in a straight line so we had a lot of crossed leads.  I think they were having a competition between themselves to see who could stay at the front for the longest.

We met Nick’s parents at the trail and shared the load a bit.  As the walk progressed the dogs did calm down a little bit and started to walk nicely together, all of their energy had been walked off :-).

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