Doctors vs. Homeopaths round 2

Years ago when I was contracting I got myself a dose of shingles, my doctor told me to take painkillers and lie on the sofa for 4-8 weeks and wait for things to get better. As a contractor, if I didn't work, I didn't get paid, so I took myself off to see a homeopath, £50, a few funny little pills and four days later I was back at work... It's a bit of a difference.
Now Ellie has a very (for her) painful complaint for which the conventional medical treatment is "to wait 18 months to 5 years" and it will "go away by itself". Frankly that's not good enough, every so often she gets an infection and some lovely pink anti-biotics. Well, no more, off to the homeopath we went again. It's too early to say whether it will be 2-0 or 1-1, but my money's on 2-0...

Rear Window...

We're in Beechville tonight; I was looking out of my "rear window". When we came to Canada I thought the view was pretty good, a bit of lake, lots of green stuff and trees. There are also a few houses in view, a school and some other buildings... Now, I need to get back "home" to Mineville where there is just trees, our pond and nothing else apart from the odd roaming neighbourhood dog - a golden retriever visits every day and is still welcome until it leaves a deposit! Our new house is truly why we came here, more land than the entire street we used to live in, woods, water and space.

Hobbit's Terrorist Unit...

There's a hobbit running CTU! Seconded from the FBI, Sam Gamgee has arrived and taken control, wow, I never saw that coming.

This was our garden this afternoon, the trees were full of snow. Alas we were forced to leave to go appliance shopping. We need a fridge, washer and dryer rather urgently!

After Tom made a dash for the upstairs, Lewis (our builder) decided the open hole needed to be filled in sooner rather than later! He did this on Sunday and started getting the new handrail in place. He's doing a brilliant job, the whole upstairs is going to look excellent in about 10 days. MC and I have decorated the family room and kitchen so far, it's going to be a long job!

Day 2

Tom's floor went down on day 2 - Saturday. We chose an oak floor with very tough varnish - it should last even in his room!

I'm all alone in our new house, MC has taken the children back to the rented place for the night while a stayed to clear up and get ready for the builder who start tomorrow. In the 10 hours we've been here we've removed nearly all of the carpet upstairs, the banisters, spindles and base board (skirting board). There is now 1000sqft of oak in the garage to replace it all. The pictures below show the changes... They were taken at hourly intervals, the first was taken 30 minutes after we walked in...
Since everyone but I left I've noticed two things - it's very dark here at night (there nothing but forest behind the house) and it's very, VERY, quiet!

30 minutes...

An hour and a half...

Two and a half hours...

Five hours...

Eight hours...

The outside - here's the front...

...and the back... 

The formal dining room and the entrance hall - we're not so formal so it will be the "den", anyone eating here will eat in the kitchen! 

Another one of the "music room" 

The "Music Room" used to house a baby grand - I think if we want music in there it will need to get a stereo until one the kids learns to play something! It will be our play room. 

Family room with open fire - a bonus feature for us, there is so much dead wood on the land we'll be well heated in the winter!