MORE AND MORE LIKE HOME

Waiting for the field stone

Friday, in the pours of rain, Nancy drove up to Ste-Agathe to choose the type of stones to be used for the fireplace. She met the fireplace mason and Jean-Marc (who had brought Sue Garland along to provide support and a second opinion) at the stone supplier. After much scrambling through slush and climbing over snow banks we decided on just the “right” sort of stone – not too grey, not too dark and properly bumpy – in short, as much like the stones of the old fireplace as possible. Unfortunately I did not have my camera along on the stone hunt, but at least there's a picture of my fellow stone hunter with the fireplace skeleton.

CLAPBOARD IS GOING ON

View from the McEntyre's road

Sue and I drove back to her house via the cottage. With the black trim all on and the siding going up at a great rate, the house is looking more and more like home. As you can see from the top picture, the mason has built the fireplace skeleton, and the tongue-and-groove is up in the kitchen and bathrooms, so it is getting easier to imagine what the finished house will look like.

Bless Sue, when she discovered I hadn’t had lunch, she insisted on giving me a quick cup of soup, and then packed a bagel with cream cheese to go, as I had to rush back to town to show the Kensington house to a prospective buyer. It is on the market privately until next Friday, and if it hasn’t sold by then (though there are three couples interested), it will be listed by Re/Max the following Tuesday. So please keep your fingers crossed!

Clapboard and trim outside the dining room

Tongue-and-groove in the kitchen