July 8 - 21, 2017 Fun in the Sun and friends

Lily and Mike's Fun in the Sun party

little one year old Hunter, dad Brent supervising

Brendon, Jaxson and Hunter getting muddy

then its the water slide to clean off

Lawson arrived

with little brother Beau

Joe and I heading out so they can have their BBQ, a nice day in the country

on one of our jobs we replaced this rod iron with a 8x8 wooden post, the client was just going

to scrap this, so we put it to good use

I now have a flowering vine growing up it

this is the next railing on an existing deck that we built, home of Sharon and Mike, Meaford

it was long over due, dinner for Joe's mom, Harriet (left), Fran

Sylvia and Sue

my Voodoo Lily, note the stock pattern

and it was time to catch up again with Old Rosie, Jane and Ben, and Carm, Kathy and Kathy's

 mom Shirley

and the tomatoes are beginning to ripen

lettuce from Sue's garden, my tomatoes and parmesan cheese

June 10 - July 7, 2017

Dave and Trish treated Joe, Michael and I to a lunch at GYC .. seared tuna, mussels, spagetti and salad

a few days later Joe and I treated our friends Ella and Richard to seared tuna on coconut rice, zucchini spinach and ginger

the Big Duck was in town for Canada Week Celebrations, about 15 boats from GYC

set out for a 9:30 lite parade into the harbour

Project 50 .. Jamie and Martha Nicol

the 6 story high Yellow Rubber Duckie, floating in the Owen Sound Harbour

we went out with Michael on Warpath

a good night on the water, and the weather cooperated

June 4 - 9, 2017 decks, railing and friends

having a BBQ at Sue's country home, with friends from France

Lily, Nat, Mike and Mars enjoying family and friend times

Lily and Mike had a two day garage sale, thank goodness the

weather cooperated

while the garage sale was happening in the front yard, deck building was

happening in the back yard

this addition is 10 ft by 23 ft .. lots of extra outdoor space

I got my coconut palm back from Joe's brother… and it is really growing

one of Joe's shop projects is to replace this transom on a friends dinghy 

it sure took a lot of clamps to laminate the wood

the next weekend we had a deck, decking blitz, thanks to Sue Allison and my sister and brother in law, who came as a surprise to help out … Joyce and Rowland Gateman

Joe and I added a pet to our life, a male Beta fish, he is the colour of the Bahama's waters

so his name is Abaco

another job was this 2nd story railing, it was a bit difficult, because we had to take

all the lumber up by ladder …but  project completed

May 26 - June 3, 2017 deck job and boat jobs

deck number 2 … Lily's boy friend dug the 4 ft sono tube holes, joe levelling everything and

Lily filling in

mixing the cement and pouring

and of course signing the wet cement

Lily, Mike and Mars, fur baby

our yacht club is busy these days ..our friends Otto and Paulien returning

to their slip after fixing the lights on the mast

Ron and Susie heading to the mast crane, a good day to put the mast up

this is Warpath, the 38 ft that I have been painting the interior and doing some 

spring cleaning inside and out … she's all ready now for the sails

one of our reno jobs is working on a 4 plex, upgrading the exterior and painting

scraping old paint and painting the front porch..

all work finished on this project

May 11 - 25, 2017 home and building our first deck

it is good to be at home …. spending some quality time with my daughter, Lily, walking one of her clients, Ella

we need some veggie garden space, so some raised beds are being built

the fiddle heads are ready

visiting Jody, Val and Daisy at the farm

a working windmill that keeps our beer cold in the cement trough

( a must )

visiting my sister Joyce and grand daughter Lydia

my niece Sara, with Niall and shy Lydia

our first deck of the season, for my sister and brother in law

a chilly day in May

having good tools a must

deck Number 1, completed in 4 days, thanks to Joyce and Rowland for

dismantling the old one