Part 3

This is a little den or office right off the kitchen. The backyard with a huge fire pit. May have to "remember, remember the 5th of November" and celebrate Guy Fawkes night in style in our new backyard.

And these next three images are pictures of a totally separate basement suite. I don't know if we'll look for a tenant right away, but it would sure help to bring in a little extra cash. Needs a little bit of work, but it's actually quite a nice one bedroom apartment really.

Second set of pics

Ahhhhh, I really wish blogger was a little more user-friendly. It's a royal pain in the ass to upload pics and organize them in any order.
Anyway...... Here's the ensuite bathroom.
A little peek at the main bathroom.

Here's the basement. I think they did a pretty nice job with the colour selection.

Another look at the basement. I know it's hard to visualize the layout, but I am sure you can get an idea.

And my personal favourite - the spiral staircase. Apparently the lady told Devyn there was s salesman that went through the neighbourhood in the '70's or '80's selling these particular staircases. There's quite a few houses on the street with these silly things.

The stairs are right in the front of the house as you walk in the front door. One of those unique little quirks that I think we'll grow to love in the place.

It actually works!!!!

Here's the place we are in the proceess of buying. Bungalow in St. Albert built 1970.
Here's the living room as you walk in the front door.
Little dining area off the kitchen.

The kitchen. Totally upgraded, with a crazy tap. Not sure if you can really see it.

Another angle of the kitchen.

This property is hereby SOLD

Well, I'd say it's as close to a done deal as you could imagine. I think I can safely declare me and Devyn home-owners.
Last Friday Dev and my dad went to look at a nice little bungalow in Braeside. They liked what they saw and I went to have a peek on Friday afternoon. We went ahead with an offer and the lady accepted.
So then we needed a home inspection which was completed on Monday. 4 hours later we still liked what we saw. Then the financing went through Tuesday and we released the conditions. This is where I saw the statement, "this property is hereby sold". So I think it's pretty safe to say this deal will go through and me and my beautiful wife will be moving into St. Albert on October 23rd, 2009.
I will look through the info I have laying around on the computer and see if I can't get some pics up on here. Yahoooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Drumheller Part Deux

This first shot is some kind of wild death pose. The thing dies and it's muscles or nerves cause it to be contorted in this way. I'm betting the person who uncovered this was pretty pleased.
Here I am being a little silly, but those are the jaws of a dinosaur. Yipes!

I loved the look of these things. I sometimes like doing jigsaw puzzles,and couldn't stop thinking about finding these bones laying in the dirt and piecing them together to come up with this. Amazing really.

I am not sure any sci-fi writer could dream up anything as scary as this one. Look at the skull on it!!!! I'm glad I wasn't around to see these dinos running around. We may not be at the top of the food chain if the dinosaurs were still kicking.

The museum had three tanks in this wall. One had a fish we still can see in our rivers called a Sturgeon. They have spines on them and I've often thought they looked somewhat pre-historic. Well these things were some kind of Mexican fish that had legs. Hahahah The name started with an "A" but I can't remember what it is. They are just hideous.

EFMF

Another Folk Festival is in the books, and as usual it was splendid. I never grow tired of looking at the beautiful Edmonton skyline from the hill. It's beautiful.
We don't get to see each other often enough, but we get lots of time together at the FF. Craig Metcalfe was in town from Toronto. He's seeking shelter under Dev's scarf. Jeff Stuart beside him.

Devyn was worried about a sunburn as usual, butt his time went to great lengths to avoid it.

We also had a great time with Carly. Laughing as always.

And here are the Hawaiian dudes, Hal and Uncle Garry.

The music was wonderful too, but I don't really like taking pics of the bands for some reason. Half the time I can't remember who I was watching. Some highlights were Sam Baker and Gurf Morlix. Tift Merrit, The Great Lakes Swimmers, Old Man Luedecke, Shane Nicholson, Alana Levandoski, Loudon Wainwright III and Danny Michel. Among others.

Hoodoos .....alright?!

Here are the pics from our August Long Weekend in Drumheller. Funny thing, there aren't too many, and none of Dev.
This was a suspension bridge that took you across the river toward an abandoned coal mine. I was diligent in reading ALL of the plaques and signs.

This is the river that we walked across on the suspension bridge...... also the river that ran along our campground. We bought some really sweet inflatable little raft thingies and they were so awesome!!!! We would float down and walk up along a sand bar, then float down again. It was perfect.

Something is out of sequence it appears. This is back to the old coal mine. It looked like a western movie. I can hear Ennio Morricone and Clint Eastwood in those spaghetti westerns of the 70's.

And Sarah, here are the hoodoos. It was crazy busy so we didn't get any better shots. Oh well.