Winter Visitor

Pepere (my dad's father) has been "visiting" my parents since January. This is the third winter that he has escaped the cold of Winnipeg for the rain of the island. Chris and I have been able to go over the Island to "visit" with him a couple of times. He leaves this Thursday and I'm sad to see him go and hope that he'll be back again next year.

Here is the definition of "visit" from dictionary.com:

vis·it /ˈvɪzɪt/
1.
to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.

Here is what actually happened:

ren·o·vate /ˈrɛnəˌveɪt/ 1.
to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
2.
to reinvigorate; refresh; revive.



Mom and Dad's house is unrecognizable, Pepere "visited" so incredibly hard that:

1. the kitchen is now a hallway


2. the bathroom lost a door, gained a new one from the hallway


3. the ceilings have been lowered


4. there are stairs leading to the second floor (it was a bungalow!)


5. new w i d e r front door


6. new plumbing


7. new electrical


8. old pink insulation gone, new green stuff installed


9. new cabinets, new counter tops


10. cement poured for work shed out back (that happened in the only 5 hour period that it wasn't raining. Yes, in the past 2.5 months! See below....

rain forest
–noun
a (tropical) forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.

That isn't everything - just highlights!

We had a great visit with Pepere, he has a fun sense of humor and obviously allot of energy! Here's a photo from his birthday...

Here's a photo from another era: