Ron – Ron & Andrea

Knotweed round one

In Mexican Bamboo, I wrote about my preparations for eliminating the swale of Japanese knotweed in our front yard. Now that it’s early June, it’s had 3-4 weeks to grow. Left alone, most of what is currently there would not grow much more. For the rest of the growing season, it would invest its growing… Continue reading Knotweed round one

Cabinet Update

Andrea mentioned the island in the last post & included a picture with placeholder cabinets. A drain pipe had already been installed. Since there wasn’t a spot in the existing cabinet arrangement for a dishwasher, we concluded that’s what the island drain was for. While planning the island design I kept in mind that the… Continue reading Cabinet Update

Cleaning up from Arthur

This was taken approximately half way between the house and road

Tropical storm Arthur came through New Brunswick and downed so many trees that we were 8 days without power. The longest power outage I had experienced prior to that was under 36 hours. Our new property had 10 trees blown over. I expect that all of them were taken down by Arthur. While the trees… Continue reading Cleaning up from Arthur

Mexican Bamboo

Also known as Mexican Bamboo.

Both the property in Miramichi and the one in Lakeville had a colony of Mexican Bamboo (or Japanese Knotweed). It’s a fast growing invasive species that is capable of killing off most vegetation that does not grow taller than it does. I succeeded in killing it off on both properties. In both cases, it took… Continue reading Mexican Bamboo

Back to the country

Andrea & I have been living in Fredericton for about 2 years. Before that, a trip to visit the children/grandchildren was most of a day. We having been enjoying being closer for visiting more often and the convenience of close shopping. When we moved we planned on staying in Fredericton for a few years saving… Continue reading Back to the country

eBook Releases for May 2011

This month we are pleased to have released two new eBooks on WP eBooks: The WordPress Curator – Curate your network content to your network home page, and Custom Registration for WordPress Networks – Create one or more custom registration processes for your WP network.