Breezeway Progress

Hi!  

How was your weekend?

We had a productive one!  Saturday, HH & I continued on the patio/breezeway work that I'd started last week.

I cut another hole for a window.

I cut the last hole and HH & I put in the first window!

  

The second window is in!

And then we got the last one in.

But man, was it cold Saturday! I kept thinking it was so cold and when we checked the temps, it was only 5C (40F!) with a windchill of around 0C (32F!)!  No wonder I was so chilly!  We have frost warnings this week.  Usually, the last possible frost date is June 15! I'm always astonished by that, since growing up, that was kinda like the middle of summer!

Anyway, speaking of summer, HH mentioned that the breezeway would probably get hot in the summer (whenever that comes! ;-)) so I thought I should rig up some curtains. See that green thing hanging in the background?

It's from an old canvas tent.  My family took a big trip in 1984. We went from Louisiana to Colorado (Mesa Verde, Denver), to South Dakota (Rushmore), Washington (Seattle), California, Arizona (Four Corners), Nevada, Texas and back home. I think this is the tent we had then.

HH & I ended up with it.  Here it is up in NJ (?) on the way up to Canada in June, 1996.

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We actually camped in it while we were starting to build the cottage. You can kinda see it in the back. This is in August, 1996.

(Sorry for the blurry pics- I took them with my phone from a photo album!)

Then we used it a few times and it got stored.

In preparation for a camping trip back in June, 2010, we set it up in the back room. 

The camping trip was to the Bay of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, where we met my oldest brother and his family.

Here is the Bay with low tide.

  

And high tide.

  

Another view of low tide.

  

And high tide.

This trip is when we discovered that the tent leaks! Because it rained and rained during the night and it was (we were) soaked!

So, we eventually got a new tent.  And the canvas tent got stored again and then it got mildewed in spots.  So, I cut it up into pieces, thinking I could eventually make something out of it.  And now I'm going to make curtains.  Or basically just hang the pieces up to block the sun!

Have a good week! :-)