Photos, projects and plans.

I took this photo over the Christmas holiday while on a walk with Brian and our friends Kyla & Will at Swan Lake in Victoria. Of course I only downloaded it from my camera last week, along with all the photos of our new year’s food and Christmas cookies – so you may be seeing some belated holiday shots and recipes here in the next little while since that was the whole purpose of the photo-taking: blogging.

January was supposed to be the month that I started my photo-a-day project which would have happened except that I realized at this time of year I’m only outside when it’s dark…. I go to work before the sun comes up and return after it’s gone down which doesn’t make the best conditions for photography – so I think I’m going to wait until March or April before before I do my month of photo-blogging.

Having said that, I suspect I will be posting frequent photos of our backyard over the next few weeks as we are starting the garage reno shortly. We have folks lined up to work, and Brian has been hard at work clearing all our stored stuff out of it. If everything goes according to plan we should be finished the substantive work by the end of February…. it’s not a whole month of work by a long shot (more like 10-14 working days) but it’s all about the scheduling of people and when we can organize the second phase to get done after the first. I suspect we won’t be painting until sometime much later in the spring when things dry out again… but everything else should be done by then…… and surely we can count on some friends for a painting party? It really is just a small project after all. And so exciting to get going on the centerpiece of our little east van “spa”!

Of course none of this gets paid for until we close out on the Gibsons house which is still six weeks away. Unfortunately that happens during the Olympics which makes for a potential travel headache since I plan to spend a weekend up there at the end of the month getting the property ready to transfer. A busy few weeks ahead and work’s been crazy lately too so I’m not getting much respite in the cube these days either!