Bye-bye Porch

The porch came down today in about three and a half hours and all fit into one trailer to go to the dump. It's VERY bright in the living room, and although the temperature was only 18 outside, with no porch to shade us, the inside temperature spiked to an uncomfortable 28!! The mosquito season has begun so we couldn't open the sliding doors either.

Storage for the Interim

Delivery of the POD, which we'll use for storing the furniture while the cottage is being renovated. For anyone who hasn't seen one of these delivered, he could have set it down on a dime! I had awful visions of the whole thing rolling over and bouncing on top of Chris and Adam's new trailer. There's only about 5' between the two.

Here comes the playhouse

Christie and Adam's new trailer being moved into position behind the ice house. We've turned into trailer trash overnight!

The end of the TV antenna

Adam and John (who definitely does not like heights) removing the TV antenna in preparation for the demolition.

Here's how we all remember it!

Hi Everyone!

There are so many of you who grew up here at the Rideau that we figured you would be interested to see what has been happening so far this year. As you all probably know, we are having to have the foundation of the cottage replaced, so we're going a few steps further to modernize and fix up the place. On the 19th of May we'll be raising the building eight feet in the air to dig down and put in a new foundation/crawl space. We'll provide pictures of the process so you can keep up on what's going on if you wish. We'll be taking up residence in the parking lot, and spreading on to Bill's/Vaughan's for probably three to four months. I've told John that he MUST view this as an "adventure".