Once again nearly half a year flys by and I eventually get round to writing the blog.
Winter was very long this year with us getting lots of snow we’ll into April, then spring came all at once with warm weather and lots of rain which caused flooding along the St John river valley.
For nearly 2 weeks the river has been in flood breaking lots of the more recent records. Many properties have been damaged and lots of people have been evacuated. Thankfully the river is receding now. Our church building was flooded in the basement and was cut off as the roads around were flooded. We don’t live near the river so we weren’t effected.
We had a phone call from our insurance company last week asking if we were still renovating the farmhouse. When we said we were they said they could no longer insure it as they only do it for 1 year on houses under renovation. They would if we moved in to a 95% completed house! Haha that isn’t going to happen.
No one else would insure us either except one company who specializes in renovations. Anyway to cut a long story short we have to move into the farmhouse buy June 7th! I have a short list of basic requirements before I will move in; electricity, water, toilet, sink, shower, door on bathroom, locks on doors, door on bedroom! It will be like camping with wooden walls for a bit. It has certainly motivated us to get a move on with the work.
Unfortunately it couldn’t have came at a much busier time. I’m still on the road with work and have a trip to PEI and Winnipeg before we move in. The pigs all need to be outside so there’s fencing to be done. We have to work full time and have commitments a number of evenings per week. Also Harriet is graduating in a few weeks and there are lots of events we have to attend associated with that.
Isaac is also on the move into an apartment in town, Harri is going to PEI in September so that leaves Joshua to stay in the house to look after that till we are ready to sell it. Ah it’s all change.
