“It’s Christmas Time”
Seasonal Greetings as the 1984 lyrics of Band Aid’s “Do they know its Christmas” echo in my head, which they have always seemed to at this time of year. Out here in BC's East Kootenays it has so far been milder with less snow than in the previous two winters, but standing on my front deck, as shown in the photos below, it now looks very like Christmas . Work on completing the house has continued but at my much more sedate and measured pace. Readers will recall that in my last update (29 th October – “Taking It Easy”) that I was trying to build the facing and retaining wall for my future walkout basement concrete patio and front entrance. As said then, I had struggled to build this having tried to go with the cheaper rock option and had eventually admitted defeat. After writing, I subsequently spent a day tearing down that irregular wall and dumping the rocks to the side of the house for use in other landscaping projects ...