Week One

We arrived in Nelson last Thursday evening after an uneventful road-trip. Our first weekend was spent in the heady environment of garage sales and thrift stores. We were in pursuit of the perfect couch to complete our cavernous living room. We found it in a Biltmore Chesterfield, which meandered its way across the country from Quebec starting sometime in the early '50s. Erick swears that it's brown; Michelle's more inclined to call it puce. We think house guests are needed to settle this debate. Thanks to Nicole's purchase of one of Erick's buckles, the purchase price was 88 cents. What a deal!





We have a small neglected vegetable patch outside our kitchen window with a few varieties of tomatoes, green peppers, pickle cukes, corn, carrots, broccoli, lettuce and some sort of bean. Erick has started to nurture it in the hopes to get a meager harvest. The first crop was a single yellow tomato, a small cucumber, green pepper and a midget carrot. We also have an overgrown grape vine out back!