Jumped all the hurdles:
- rezoning the property /check
- fire inspection /check
- health inspection /check
- business licence /check
- Ontario Master Business Licence /check
- domain name, website purchase /check
Got the logo finalized, business cards designed, brochure for first year operations printed, "Did you forget anything? bathroom amenities cards printed, breakfast cards printed....
We have a driveway now - woofrickin'hoo.... it's solid, above the grass level. There's two spaces together, then another separated by a good 8 to 10 feet of grass, In this grass peninsula, we'll put a garden with a electric lamp pole - a $50 find at Hab4Humanity - eventually.
The lakeside patio is in now - as wide as the sunroom, out about 12 feet out - looks fantastic. There's a smaller one on the driveside entry, with a paver path leading out to the parking. NO MORE WET MORNING FEET! There'll be another paver path leading from the lake patio towards the lake, turning right near the breakwall and heading toward the right corner of the property, where we'll build a small patio with a firepit in the middle.
Planting: we've put in more gardens: a circular one at the end of the rose of sharon new hedge, with grasses and low and high flowering plants.... a fruit garden along the west fence (rhubarb from last year, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes).... matching bella donas, hostas, russian sages on either side of the side door.... 2 large wisterias along the front rail fence.... a bigger garden around the entry post of the driveway.... a whole forestette of silver maple twigs and fir mini-brush babies... the only disappointment are the 6 dinosaur pines (will grow up to 70 feet in 15 years!) - extinct. I called Vesey's and they refunded the pricey corpses. Good company.
Lots of what I planted last year has come up/is coming up/looks like it'll be coming up.
Green bedroom is almost ready for occupation..... just a few adjustments, touch-ups, .... hooking up the minifridge.
Bought the paint for the outside of the house. Behr's exterior paint plus primer. Stuff is thickthickthick. I'll be scraping hard, doing some repair, then painting a side of the house at a time... and what did you do for your summer vacation, little Margo?
So much more, but at least I've reduced the no-posting-guilt-load by 25%........ also, not completely my laziness, the new Dell Vostro 3700 laptop (remember that evil brand and designation) completely fried itself after exactly three months. The Dell service was great - after online around the world of irritating bad English/worse accents, Steve in Nashville became my shining knight from DellHell and arranged two visits to my workplace, 2 complete new motherboards and extraneous arcane and other parts - but the Dell device itself was a black hole of sadness. The new Dell Vostro 3750 just came in, minus the already-paid-for pricey MS Office Professional 2010, which still hasn't been worked out to my satisfaction yet, but at least I've got a laptop again.... so I'm catching up... adding some pictures a bit later will help.
Ciao
