Linda’s Blog
Deciding, selling and moving….
The last 10 months or so have been extremely busy, life changing in fact, to someone who loves their rootedness! This time last spring we were contemplating selling our home, we had designed and built it 12 years prior to that and were feeling ready for a new project...
New Nile Landing website & blog…..
We are so excited to share the news that earlier this spring we launched our restyled Nile Landing website ~ we do hope you may click on the link and have a look around at the pages. Our last site had become somewhat outdated so we all felt it was time for a...
Exterior materials…..
As the house we are working on is coming to completion the exterior work is looking much more complete. Once the extensive rock work is finished and all of the inherent dust that goes along with cutting the stone has settled down we will be able to show you really...
Addition of a pergola onto the garage…..
Something we had talked about adding to our house over the years was a pergola on to the face of the garage, to bring down the scale and add some dimension to the large gabled end ~ a gabled end that felt like it was looming at the end of the "barren" driveway. So,...
Power washing our concrete paving stones…..
With our late winter on the west coast being so mild, many of us are starting our spring maintenance projects earlier than usual. One we should have completely tackled last year was the power washing of all of our concrete paving stones ~ Rick did manage to get...
Activity on Meadow Drive…..
The new custom home we are currently working on has been a real beehive of activity recently ~ all of the rough-ins have been going in over the last month, the plumbing, heating systems, gas works, the electrical, communications (phone, internet & cable vision)...
Qualicum Beach Grad Class Polar Bear Swim…..
An annual ritual for graduating classes in Qualicum Beach is a Polar Bear swim, held every January once classes resume after the holidays. The class this year was very lucky in that it was a gorgeous sunny day with almost no wind - not that those factors lessened the...
Cheers to the New Year….. 2013
With Christmas now behind us once again, we look forward to the New Year that will begin so very soon. Time.....how does it manage to slip by so very quickly, it feels as though 2012 should be with us for a couple of more months and yet there are only two days left....
A walk around the block…..
Starting off from where I left off on the last post ~ after enjoying our time at the Qualicum Beach Farmers Market so much and with the sun really starting to warm up the air we continued on our walk around town. We love doing this with no specific purpose planned,...
Uptown Qualicum, on a Saturday in November…..
This past Saturday morning we decided to go uptown, to go for a walk around town ~ which is something we like to do every so often ~ with no particular agenda other than to have a coffee and enjoy our community. How happy were we after a couple of hours? Let me tell...
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