Oh well. Here's the next instalment of tulips to brighten up the day (although these particular ones have raindrops on them — unavoidable, this week):
This may be the last of them, I'm afraid. The white and crimson one at the back is a "Carnival de Rio," which blooms in late spring (check!) and is the last of the tulips in the garden. They've been blooming but not opening since the weekend. The "Banja Luca" tulips were completely decimated by the rain — I think they opened and the heavy raindrops started weighing down the petals, so they've been dropping left, right and centre. No other flowers have come up yet, but I have high hopes for the gladiolas and calla lilies in a month or so. That is, if they haven't drowned.
And that's it for the gardening. I did no work last weekend — too cold and too drizzly. But the lawn does look green thanks to all of the rain. Now if we could get some sun before my herbs die of chill, that would be lovely.
The rest of the weekend, we finished the teardown and started building the sunroom back up. Pd and his brother laid the subfloor:
It now looks like this:
I know it looks kind of the same, but it feels more solid, somehow. We've bought the new flooring (laminate) already, but we're going to finish putting up the drywall before laying it.
I helped by using prying all of the nails from the old vapour barrier out of the frame. (This is both more and less strenuous than it sounds.) I wasn't allowed to stay for the actual flooring, though, because of the dust. Still, it's more physical labour than I was allowed last time, so that's something.
Here's something cool, that we unearthed during the teardown:
I don't know if I've ever mentioned it before, but the sunroom is actually a second-floor addition. There's nothing but air below it (in fact, it is right over the barbecue in the backyard). This is where the addition joins up with the original house, which apparently was once white brick. (It still is, at the front.)
I love seeing the original bits of the house peek through. It's an old house, built around the 1920s, and while I think the hardwood and some of the walls are original, a lot of it has been "updated" (in particular, the kitchen and bathroom — typical, isn't it? — and the former ceilings, also known as the DEATHTRAP!.). There aren't a lot of interesting or quirky architectural features, but it's still nice to see a bit of what used to be — kind of a sneak peek behind the curtain, as it were.
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