Weatherproofing

Here and there, my dad has been working on weatherproofing the exterior of his woodshop(and has called on my help at times). Last Saturday we got the boards up on the south side.

This rotating hammer drill penetrates through the boards and into the concrete blocks.

After which the boards are secured using special…

High density styrofoam insulation is put between the boards, then everything is covered in house wrap. (The shiny, silver stuff is window wrap.)

He’s planning on covering all of this with steel siding.

It’s been a little adventure for me! :)

An Early Canadian Thanksgiving

I decided to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving a day early this year(now Sunday-before-last). Mum and I did most of the preparation, with dad and Shaina helping out a bit.

I’m getting into the habit of my Grandma’s Canadian pork pie for this holiday. She wrote the recipe for me by hand. :)

Herbed Vegetables, Pumpkin pie,

And last but not least—Cherry Cheesecake! I use one recipe for the cheesecake bit and another for the cherry topping.

It’s based off of Nigella Lawson’s recipe, and seems a lot less fiddly than a baked cheesecake.

Family History:Grandma & Grandpa Dawkins

This is the only picture I’ve seen of my great-great Grandma Dawkins(that I can remember).

The order of things:

Elizabeth D.

Lillian (Dawkins) Carleton

Marion (Carleton) North

Andrew North

Me

She and her husband, Edwin, moved from New Berton On Trent, England to Dryden, Ontario, when my great-Grandma Lillian was four. They had at least 3 other children: Annie, Florence, and Lucy. Grandma North lived far away and never got to meet Elizabeth. She met Edwin once, though, after she had married, and was moving away from her family home in Orkney, Saskatchewan to Simco, Ontario. The train she and grandpa were on stopped near where Edwin and his second wife lived(grandma couldn’t remember her name); so they had a brief visit. Her step-grandmother fixed tea; and grandma remembers that Edwin put milk and sugar in his wife’s tea for her. :)

That’s all for now! I will try to include more pictures(than just one)in the next post.

Canning Projects

This Year I’ve…

Pickled

Relished

 

Tomatoed

And Appled

The cupboards are pretty happy at this point. We’ll see if I do more.