Drilling begins

While Cath was in Vancouver, the drillers came and started drilling.  They only had to go  40 ft. before hitting bedrock which is excellent both for drilling progress and heat transfer.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that they are making a slimy mess of our driveway.  Oh well, if they take one day per hole that is only 5 days of muck.  Could be worse.

First hole of 5

This expels goop and muck which then runs down the driveway

A sea of grey

Number 2 bore

The weekend brought cold nights and when we woke up to 4C inside with all four heaters going, we knew we needed help.  So our music friend, Pat, who is also a contractor, lent us a lovely heater.  After running it with our other heaters, we were at 11C this morning - a great improvement.

The great little heater

Our worm composter had to be moved upstairs so they didn't freeze

Tomorrow we are expecting the heating guys to be back to get the heat exchanger, etc. put in.  Apparently they were down with flu last week, thus our freezing conditions.

Being a lovely, sunny Fall day, we went for a hike across the walker valley and explored a lovely path.  Banjo was in his glory!

Fall is evident everywhere

The little golden dog is hard to see with all those leaves

Len has managed to get blocking put in the rafters of the main room.  That means we can start insulating the ceiling.  We also need to finish the garage loft room in preparation for REAL central heating.

one side

and then the other

Another bit of good news, the hot tub is working and is a lovely way to end the day.  Sorry, no pictures of us in it (it was dark) but you can imagine!

The hot tub is set into this end of the deck, you can see the cover