Carport or Gazebo?

The more I look at our newly constructed carport, the more I agree with Darlah:  it is a great gazebo!  Johnny K, Casey and Ali worked on the carport all week and finished installing the shingles yesterday.  All that is left to do is the pine T&G and the lighting.  So, for now, we are using the carport to store our cars and Russell's tools (lawn mower, wood splitter, ladder, etc) but who knows, we may have a party in there one day!  This carport has 8 white pine log posts, which have been adzed.  It is solid.

This past week was quiet.  The weather was very nice and relatively mild for this time of year.  We didn't do much other than a bit of shopping, went for a few walks and I bought the ingredients for my Christmas baking.  Tuesday was especially quiet.  I made the mistake of spending a bit of time reading my book in the morning.  I ended up finishing the book at the end of the day.  I couldn't put it down.  It was one of those days where doing nothing but read a book was the only thing on the agenda.  It was nice.

On Thursday, we had lunch with Linda and Peter, our neighbours down the road.  They are the co-developers of the lots in this area and we bought our property from them.  They are very nice people and they know the ins and outs of Huntsville.  Linda knows all the neighbours right down to their middle name.

Friday, we had the visit of Heather, the realtor that we used when we bought our property.  She hadn't seen our house yet.  She was very impressed with the craftsmanship.  To quote her, "there is so much to see, it's hard to take it all in".  She is very nice.  She has built more than once so she knows many of the trades people and has a lot of contacts.  She also has a dog and takes her dog to the same doggie day care that we do.  Heather confirmed what many people had already told us:  never take your dog to a certain doggie day care, which is the place we originally thought we would used when we first moved to Huntsville.  We cringe when we hear the stories about that place. Enough said about that.

This week will be a bit busy.  Russell and I will have our "meet and greet" meeting with the Nurse Practitioner Clinic tomorrow.  We found a new dentist, 10 minutes from our house, so we will be making our appointments for the end of the year cleaning and check up. The grading of our private road will also be done this week, as well as the rebuilding of our own driveway.  It will be good to get this done before the frost sets in for good.  We have also finalized our snow contract, both for the private road and our driveway.  We will take advantage of the nice weather to split more wood and clean up the remaining leaves.  I also want to buy some boughs and twigs and fill up our window box.

That's about it for this week's blog.  We will be going to Port Carling this afternoon to check out the Christmas store as well as a few other little shops.  We are starting to think about Christmas decorations and Christmas trees for our new house.

The gaz-port or is it the car-e-b o?

Have a great week everyone!