About A House - Snow & Metal Roof

It snowed once this winter and it was a pretty heavy accumulation. Although the snow hung around for only a couple of days, it quickly pointed out to us metal roof newbie what's missing in ours.

Here's a small set of picture of the snowy day. Pretty spectacular for YVR!

And now for what we learned about metal roof... see that snow crested at the top? It just comes down like an avalanche when it gets heavy enough. The metal is almost like a slide and doesn't hold anything!

After the storm, we noticed some of the other metal roofs have snow guard like this.

I'd say they are of the minority. Most metal roofs in YVR don't have them since we're in a milder climate zone. We're going to get a quote & see!

About A house - Reposition Plants

Remember those plants we nursed in the back? Well, it's early Oct and time to reposition them to their new home around the yard.

First a picture of the bare yard

Here Yuki's crew working on the transport...

These ones were moved from the back yard to the front...

Everything was covered with some nice black topsoil and ready for the rest of the landscaping...

We worked on the new planting bit by bit over the winter & here's what the yard look like in Feb. Doesn't seem to look better but we planted quite a few bulbs, ground covers and small shrubs. It will improve significantly once the weather warms up.

A couple of the nursed small trees were repositioned in the back yard. Arthur's crew did all the heavy lifting to complete the back yard. It's ready for the veggie planting! 

About A House... The Gamster

It's been a few months since we moved into the house. It took us a long time to settle down partly because there was quite a list of finishing touches Arthur's team was still chipping away at. Another reason is we have accumulated significant more stuff over the years living in a bigger house and it took us a long time to figure what to do with it all.  As a result, the suite is fully furnished!

Our dog Gami settled down the fastest out of all of us! We've been extremely impressed with how well she had adjusted to all the changes we've thrown her way in the past year. We moved 6x last year between original house, temporary house, my parent's house and this new house. She just went with the flow with no drama. What a good doggy!

Here's some pictures of her looking comfy in her new environment...

One of her favourite hiding places, on the rug under the dining room table legs.

This is a new "cave" we created for her in the new house under the Moller bench...

The bench doubles as a coffee table book shelf!

It took a little bit more time, but she's even taking a liking to her new balcony & Yard!

Did you spot the dog right way?

Finally, a cute one of her taken just before bedtime, begging for treat!