Well...At least blogs are free...

Long story short, we went to the Cottage and Backyard Show this past weekend and dropped a lot of coin. We bought a frame dock, something we'd been planning on doing for the better part of a year so it's not as though we didn't anticipate it. But we're committed now!

It was actually pretty simple and the lady we're working with at Fendock is quite helpful. We have to settle on a delivery date and determine when we're going to attempt to build the thing, but progress is being made on that front, finally.

Otherwise, the C&B Show (as crazy-cool people call it) was uneventful. We gained a little knowledge and a couple of resources, brought home a bundle of flyers and business cards again...

Oh, and bought this little lady.  I've named her Bjork.

Eh. You know when you've known someone for decades? I was walking a bit ahead of Christine at the show so I saw a number of these displayed a split second before she did. There was no question as to what would come next.

Me: "Ah, jeez...Christine is totally going to want..."
Christine: "Oh my God! Those are awesome!!"

We're supposed to have a "no-clutter" rule but it gets broken a fair bit. Christine loved it on sight and it felt like the kind of situation where if we didn't buy it, we might have regretted it. We haven't really put own decorative stamp in that room yet anyway (replacing floorboard and carpeting doesn't count) so Bjork accomplishes that.

There's another small addition to that room: We saw lantern-shaped, battery-powered lights sold on the cheap (and built accordingly, I might add) at Rona that we thought might be appropriate. So we bought a couple, one red and one white. The Sun Room does not have a light source of any kind so while these don't cast a great glow, it can serve as something of a night light at worst.

That floor is looking a wee bit better than when it was last seen on here, eh? The rotted segments and the plywood strip that had been removed (see January 13th) have all been replaced, fastened, etc. Just in time for some wicked spring rains, no doubt. Bring it, Mother Nature!