Special Request

Kristina has asked for more details about the house we are buying. This post is for her! (But the rest of you can read it too.)

The house is over 100 years old and is, like I said, in Bridgetown. The property has a really decent area to put a vegetable garden and also has lots of trees and bushes and stuff on it. Here's a picture of the very back of the back yard - you can see the graveyard behind it.


Here's a picture of the house from the back yard - Mark is kind of standing where the garden will start.


The place is definitely a fixer-upper, which is what we were looking for, but recent owners (NOT the current one) did lots of renovations, including this giant bathroom on the second floor:


and in the giant bathroom they put a giant jacuzzi tub:


which makes me happy.

Bridgetown is a small town; probably 1000 people live there. There are at least two pizza shops and one Tim Hortons. Oh, and guess what, west coast people? I'm pretty sure there's not a Starbucks within 150 kilometres of this place.

Anyway that part of Nova Scotia is extremely beautiful, will rolling pastoral farms, treed hills and valleys that are gold and red with Autumn leaves these days, views of the Bay of Fundy as well as the Annapolis River (which is a two minute walk from the house), and of course, colourful historic buildings everywhere.

Some of you may not know that Mark and I met in the Annapolis Valley. We both went to Acadia University, which is in Wolfville.

Anyway, more about the house. Here's the kitchen.


Here's the woodstove, which is between the kitchen and the dining area.


That's probably all the pictures you'll see of this place until a month from now, and then I'm sure I'll be frenetically posting dozens of pictures of the mess that we create when we move in, and then when we start trying to change and fix things.

Housewarming Tequila bender TBA.