The Floor!

I am not a handyman. I am certainly not a carpenter. Yet Philip has been working to teach me a few skills and give me some projects to work on. The latest has been to remove the tiles in our kitchen and the underlying 3/4 inch plywood. The tiles came up relatively easy. You probably…

Merry and bright

Amid our Christmas shopping – almost done – we ran into WalMart, not my favourite place, to get a couple of things and this young lady was on the kettle. She is the epitome of enthusiasm when it comes to volunteers and Christmas. I asked if I might take her picture and she readily agreed…

Almost there

The end is near. Yup, with Friday before us, I think it will be the day I finally have all ceramic tiles up and all the subfloor cleared so that we can begin the process of getting the new flooring in place. So I learned a couple of things. First, I had never worked with…