Progress! YES YES

Yesterday, the garage door was installed in Howard's workshop. Progress! YES YES - When the city insisted on changes to our permit, one of the bonuses was a deep enough workshop to have a garage door. This makes for easy access AND was way less expensive than the customized doors we would have had to buy AND Howard gets just under 300 square feet to "play" in instead of about 40. All good... even if it's taken forever and is costing ten times as much - LOL.




Unfortunately, the installer left without putting in the wireless touch pad on the outside that was part of our quote so he'll be coming back. Imagine having to find the garage door opener every time we want a hammer or something from the workshop. It won't be in the car because the workshop is wider than it is deep and doesn't fit a car. The door is purely for convenience.

As you can see, the workshop is tucked at the back of our carport. That door to the right is the "garbage" closet. Our regular and recycling cans as well as our BBQ and some gardening supplies will fit in there - nice and neat - out of sight. I am REALLY looking forward to having a neat presentation to our home again. It feels like forever getting to this stage. We're not the type to have "stuff" lying around but we have for the past five years. The neighbours don't know the "real" us.

Those boxes in the carport are for the guy's holiday next week. Howard, the boys, and four other guys are heading down to the US for a four day, Christian rock concert. They've been going for seven or eight years now. They camp. The boxes are a big tarp - like the kind you put over a car or boat - and provides shade from the sun. The event is held at The Gorge, which is a natural amphitheater in the desert.




Part of our better presentation is getting rid of this open ceiling and all that brown. When Hilda sides the workshop, she'll also put white - can't remember the word but it's metal sheeting with dots on it that goes under the eaves - under the carport roof and wrap the posts in metal. When we bought the house, we replaced the cedar siding with vinyl so that we didn't need to re-paint every few years. Once the roof is done - there will be nothing at all left to paint although we do want to paint the two stucco sides the same color as the siding.

Once the siding is finished, we want to do the posts at the front of the carport. I'm really quite hopeful of having that done by fall but - time will tell. I'll post pictures of the posts later when there is something to see. We want them widened significantly and then covered with slate so they look big enough to support this huge roof. Right now they're toothpicks - the size of the post you see at the back of the carport image - holding up a roof twenty feet off the ground. Not!

My first pinkish-orange Lily came out yesterday. Isn't it gorgeous? There are tonnes of blooms so the garden should be bright and full over the next few weeks. These are such gorgeous flowers and look beautiful with the yellow Stella lilies and - of course - they have a wonderfully lime leaf. - Have a great weekend. I'm off to pack lunch and the waterslides.

Talk soon - Myrna

Grateful: progress on the workshop - nearing done