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| Hot Soup! |
Christmas has come and gone, I planned my Christmas break
around Dayna’s so we both had 2 weeks off.
For the entire 2 weeks I didn’t even look at anything to do with work,
it was great! Over the break we had a
good Christmas, with Dinner and presents at Dayna’s Parents. After a few days in Pitt Meadows we returned
to our house. Dan and Tracy came for a
visit, we had a good evening together chatting and drinking some wine. However, I lost my voice and came down with a
cold, which would slow me down for a few days.
It was a good relaxing 2 week break, sick or not. On the last day we went to Mt. Baker for a
day of skiing and snowboarding.
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| Christmas Eve ride |
Since our trip to Portland in November, I have been wanting
to brew my own beer. Over the break Ian
and I bought a brewing kit and started making beer. We decided start with a honey brown
intermediate brew. The intermediate
means, we had to cook the grains and boil the hops into beer, about a 3 hours
process. Then 3 weeks of waiting. We bottled
last weekend and are looking forward to trying some this Saturday when we watch
the return of Hockey. The working title
for our beer is fussy ginger brewing co.
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| Cooking Beer |
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| Adding to Primary |
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| Bottling |
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| Testing |
Over the past few weekends Dayna’s dad Don, has been helping
me update/upgrade our electrical. We
recently added a plug for our fridge, yes I said fridge. It used to be plugged in beside it and not
behind. We added a plug for the
microwave, finished the hood fan and installed our new microwave (purchased
with the other appliances last march).
It’s great to finally have a hood fan that vents outside, the old one
used to just blow the air back into the kitchen. We also added under mount lighting and a
second light switch. The kitchen is now
ready for painting. The work continues,
as we will now work around the house to sort out the old electrical and add
light switches and plugs where needed.
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| Replacing kitchen sink plumping, removed the old plugged cast iron pipe |
One Month delay….. ops
We just painted our kitchen purple… a little too purple, but
its growing on us. We are going to wait
until the floor and back splash is done before deciding if we will be changing
it or not. Over the last month I have
been busy at the indoor BMX track, running races and camps, now that it has
closed for the season I can get back to working around the house.
I just started a new project, I’m making us bedside tables,
out of pallets. The other day I broke
down 7 pallets, I probably need 7 more to make the 2 tables. Stay tuned for how they are going to turn
out.
The Fussy Ginger brewing co. is also working hard. We just brewed our fourth beer, a stout and
the second batch (IPA) is ready for drinking.
So far so good.
Oh and I mowed my lawn last Sunday (march 3rd).
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| Our Headboard, 100 year old door from the Elk lodge in Fernie, BC |
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| Fussy Ginger IPA |
Over the past few weekends Dayna’s dad Don, has been helping
me update/upgrade our electrical. We
recently added a plug for our fridge, yes I said fridge. It used to be plugged in beside it and not
behind. We added a plug for the
microwave, finished the hood fan and installed our new microwave (purchased
with the other appliances last march).
It’s great to finally have a hood fan that vents outside, the old one
used to just blow the air back into the kitchen. We also added under mount lighting and a
second light switch. The kitchen is now
ready for painting. The work continues,
as we will now work around the house to sort out the old electrical and add
light switches and plugs where needed. 
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