One Tonne Of Fun

Today we decided to take a load to the dump. R's parents are moving out of their house in a few weeks so they were clearing out a bunch of junk. We had finished the bulk of our renovations, we were ready to toss out a pile of junk as well. It only took a little bit of time to load up the stuff from R's parents' place. Our place took a long time and filled the back part of the truck right to the ceiling. I had no idea we had so much junk. It was mostly stuff from tearing apart the old kitchenette and some scraps from building the new one. We also cleared all the detritus from the shed.


The dump (aka Spyhill Sanitary Landfill) charges $5 for any load under 250kg, which is a great deal. After that, they charge at the rate of $50 / tonne, which still isn't that bad. We thought that maybe we'd hit the $25 mark. No way. We came in at $48 (960 kg) -- just shy of a tonne. We just needed to find a couple bags of sand or something.



I took a few pictures of the chemical disposal area, but I missed the sign on the road that said "no littering" right near the dumping point. I couldn't tell if they were just trying to be funny.


Here's a gang of cast-off fridges, looking to make trouble.





With the work winding down, we had R's family over for a BBQ dinner. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire. It was nice to sit and enjoy the house instead of simply being a slave thereto.

While our little niece climbed up in a tree, her little brother decided to play with the tools. Perhaps he will share his father's knack for renovations, but who knows if he'll be half as agile. You see, my brother-in-law Luke twice climbed into impossible spaces for the sake of successful plumbing. Once, when we'd already framed, drywalled and painted the kitchenette, he climbed through a tiny gap in the wall to get at a pipe that was leaking. He was INSIDE the wall, hugging the pipe, for at least a half hour while he worked. Another time, he was behind the stacking laundry machines when we put them into the new laundry room/ broom closet. It was so confined in there that he had to climb up on top of the machines to wriggle out the gap between the top of the dryer and the door jamb. Anyways, it looks like his kids are ready to climb things and work with tools.

While my other brother-in-law (Mr. M) was working on fixing the cable jack in the basement, Scott decided to help out by softening up this section of cable. After the BBQ, the family stuck around to help with some of the last details around the house. It was wonderful to see the project coming to a conclusion and things getting cleaned up.


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