Hi and welcome back. To follow are just some more photos of just before we moved in. You will see more pictures of the kitchen including the cabinets and doors, the new shower for the downstairs bathroom and the progress for the upstairs bathroom with a new bathtub.

We also have to say a big thank you to my uncle Danny and his girlfriend Nathalie Drapeau for spending their Saturday with us painting. Nathalie has a fantastic eye for paint and colours and she was able to match up some stain to match the new finishings with the old, including the baseboards. Finally, we started the prep work in the living room for the addition of a ductless mini-split heat pump furnished and installed by Levesque and McIntyre Electric.



Rebonjour....enfin d'autres photos !  Les prochaines photos ont été prises juste avant qu'on déménage. Vous pourrez voir notre cuisine, la douche de la salle de bains en bas, notre bain dans la salle de bain en haut et tout plein de cartons sur nos planchers...

Sur une photo, on voit le plancher du salon et du couloir.  Un gros, gros merci à Nathalie Drapeau et Danny, l'oncle à Eric, d'être venus nous aider un samedi matin (de l'aide et des cafés...rien de meilleur !!!).

Well it has been a little over a week but we have some more photos to share. To bring everyone up to speed though we will have to be forthcoming and tell you all that we finally moved in going on three weeks ago!! This does not mean that we have been just sitting around looking at the walls....well we have but that is because there are still some rooms to be painted.

After moving in we were more like camping as the bathrooms were still not 100%, nor was the kitchen, or all the electrical, the afore mentioned painting and the cleaning...oh yes the cleaning. We had cardboard all over the floors for the first week as the work was still going on. The move in went very well as the weather cooperated nicely. Another big shout out to brother in law Tony and again Margot's parents for the help.

In these photos we take you through more of the staining of the floors, the finishing around the new window in the kitchen, the addition of some crown moldings in the dining room, an addition of a chandelier in the staircase and the starting of the new cabinets and island in the kitchen.



C'est vrai qu'on est un peu en retard dans les photos !  Oui, nous avons finalement déménagé...et nous commençons à s'installer petit à petit.  Les premières semaines ont été un peu difficiles : il fallait chercher pour tout...de la pâte à dent, aux ustensiles...et le travail continu toujours.  Merci encore à Tony, mon beau frère et mes parents pour l'aide...on vous apprécie beaucoup ! 

Finally...more pictures!! To be quite honest, there has been alot going on in the past few weeks to a month. Again...we are quite a bit behind with our pictures and yes again we apologize. What with work, winter, Sarah's after school activities and Eric going down to the house every night after work, the whole family going down to the house on the weekends to prime and paint...there is not much time left to keep up to the blog.
First off, a big thank you to Margot's aunt Leonie and uncle Andre for coming down to help us with the priming upstairs and a huge, huge thank you to Margot's parents for the immense amount of time and help they have given to us in seeing this project through. We decided to tackle the painting by ourselves but with the expert advice and color choices of Casa Bella Decor and Design in Campbellton.
Some things that you will see in the photos are our three carpenters; they were downsized to two shortly after the new year, the addition of a window in the kitchen, the rebuilding of the fireplace and the sanding and staining of the floors, upstairs and down. As a note, it took over a week to do the sanding and about fifteen large garbage bags of sawdust were removed from the floors....our poor power bill!!

And the work goes on...

Now that the floor is ''finished'' in the kitchen, it is time to continue the work upstairs. This means adding new drywall to make the bathroom upstairs in addition to re-figuring the bedrooms to add some closets. Meanwhile the work still advances downstairs with saving the old plaster walls and ceilings and securing the floor under the fireplace. We took apart the marble fireplace like a jigsaw puzzle in order to do the repairs with the hope of making a new frame and rebuilding it at a later date.

Take two ''great'' Danes, add Dale from Archibald & some ''birds eye'' maple...

Finally...after I stayed until midnight the night before pulling out stray nails, ripping out the old birch bark off the floor and sweeping up the century old dust and dirt, the Petersen boys returned the next morning and we were ready to lay the new flooring. First thing though, we had some repairs to do to the sub floor. There were two trap doors and several other access ''holes'' to fill in. Then we had to lay 5/16 inch presswood over the entire floor. This would even it out and to raise the new flooring to the height of the old flooring which it will join in the hallway and the dining room. The old original flooring was one inch in thickness but new flooring is only 3/4 inch.
If you remember, we intend to refinish all the floors the same. As stated in the last issue the only place that we could find unfinished flooring is at DJ Smearer Hardwood in Archibald, near Jacquet River. Dale Smearer; owner, has the most unique business for anyone that has interest in anything wood...it is kind of hard to explain. From Mercedes Benz to Fender and Gibson Guitars, from million dollar homes to ski lodges, golf resorts, etc., Dale is the man to supply you with your exotic wood needs. For our flooring...we are going with rustic ''birds eye'' maple. Once the starting point was ''mathematically'' determined by head guru Larry, we were off like a herd of turtles! I was slowing the pace by being too choosy in laying one piece to the next. The afternoon came quickly and the boys had some holiday parties (yes...we are a month behind) to attend. We were finally able to finish on Sunday; not too late. We were missing a bit of wood to actually complete the entire room but it came out looking totally awesome!! Who knew that Danish people would know so much about hardwood flooring; if anyone is in need, I hear they come pretty cheap!
I had Larry and Joe sign and date the back of one of the pieces....I wonder who will be the next person to see it.... and when....




Cette fois-ci, ça va être vraiment difficile d'écrire ma version des choses...je n'ai vraiment pas participé dans le «replaçage» des planchers...une chance !  Mais, je suis allée avec  Eric voir l'entreprise de bois DJ Smearer Hardwood à Archibald.  Incroyable !!!  Même moi, qui ne connais pas grand chose du bois (autre que ça sens bon quand on le coupe) j'étais impressionnée.  Pas nécessairement par la quantité, mais par la qualité et les différentes sortes de bois qu'on y retrouve !!  Finalement, on a opté pour de l'érable piqué dans notre cuisine.  Les gurus (les frères Petersen) et le «aimerait vraiment être guru» Eric ont travaillé très fort pour placer notre plancher de cuisine. Le résultat final est très, très beau !

Those old floors...they practically lift themselves!! Ahhhh l'histoire des planchers !!

As you may remember from some earlier posts, we had ''discovered'' the original hard wood floors hidden under various layers of plywood and flooring. Unfortunately the floor in the kitchen was just too rough to save so I decided that I would lift it and replace with some new hard wood. As our intent is to resurface all the floors and stain them, I needed to find some unfinished hard wood flooring. Thank you to Dale Smearer from DJ Smearer Inc. Hardwood from Archibald; near Jacquet River, for coming through in a huge way! Dale has the most unique business tucked away in such a remote little place...will talk more about it in the next issue.

As I have never worked in hardwood before, I called upon the expertise of two hardwood flooring gurus...Larry Petersen and his brother Joey. Joe also has a lot of experience in renovating old homes as he has tackled a similar project on a similar house just down the hill. Looking for encouragement and bravado, I placed the call. ''Would we...'' they said, ''...no problem...those old floors practically lift themselves off...'' they chimed. A Friday night was chosen, right after work, a couple of coffees from Tim's and then a few beer for later. ''The coffee won't even have time to get cold it will go that fast...'' I was told. ''We will lift the old stuff, repair what needs to be repaired (several old trap doors that led to the cellar) and give a good start to laying down the new...'' they said with conviction. ''Won't it be hard pulling up the flooring with all the old nails?'' I so innocently asked. ''Nails...nails were too expensive back then!'' I was told. ''...they might have used one nail every four or five feet...'', ''...just wait...you will see!''. 

 We finally got going around 6:00 pm. By 10:30 I told them both to go home and rest up and we will give it another go in the morning! The hard wood turned out to be one inch thick by about three inches wide and most were as long as fourteen feet long!! What about the nails you ask? There were five inch nails doubled up every half foot or so!! It was deafening from the sound of the nails being forced to leave go their century long hold. One really cool thing though, was under the flooring the floor was lined with birch bark...the original vapour barrier! I decided to hold onto the the old flooring for a little project that I will describe at a later date. I must admit though that it was a great night...we drank a few beers and had even more laughs at the situation...''...lift themselves...''alright.

Ahhh...le fameux plancher de cuisine ! On croyait (et aurait bien aimé) pouvoir sauver le plancher de bois franc dans la cuisine. Malheureusement, celui-ci était vraiment en trop mauvais état.  Eric avait donc demandé à Larry Petersen et son frère Joey (qui ont fait cela très souvent) pour l'aider à l'enlever, ça devait prendre quelques heures pas plus... Mais, plus tard dans la soirée, Sarah et moi on a été appelé en renfort : « On a besoin du café, ça va prendre plus longtemps que prévu» !  Quand on est arrivée à la maison, on pouvait entendre de dehors les clous se lamenter !!!  Et des clous....j'en avais jamais vu autant sur un même morceau de planche !!

Nous sommes encore de retour / We are back ! Again !!

We are back! Again!!

We had to take a small break for the Christmas / New Year / beginning of flu season but we have some new (old....as the work has been continuing) pictures to share with you. The following are more pictures of demolition of plaster and yes....more steaming of wall paper!! Even though the work was progressing downstairs there was still some more prep work upstairs. We want to take the large bay window bedroom and downsize it to make an upstairs bathroom and this would enable us to increase the size of the adjoining bedroom to make it a bit larger for a master bedroom. In one of the photos you will see the ''mistake'' someone made a long time ago in measuring the stud and then scribbled it out...pretty cool.



Oui, comme Eric le dit si bien : nous sommes de retour après un court repos de Noël, Nouvel An, grippe...  Le travail dans notre maison avance très, très rapidement.  Voici quelques photos qui le prouve bien !! On vous promet (avec beaucoup, beaucoup de joie dans mon coeur ) que se sont les dernières photos «d'enlèvage» de tapisserie que vous allez voir...YÉÉÉ fini la tapisserie !!!!!!!

Before it gets better...it has to get worse...

Dans les semaines qui ont suivi la construction de notre rallonge, on s'aurait cru dans une vraie ruche !!  Les plombiers, les électriciens, les charpentiers...ça y allait !!  Je n'avais pas  réalisé combien il fallait défaire pour pouvoir refaire...on avait des trous partout pour pouvoir passer les tuyaux, les broches, l'isolation... mais on m'assure qu'après, ça va être facile de boucher les trous.




Stepping out of the new and into the old. Now that the new sun porch is in place it is time to focus on the renovations needed inside the older part of the house. It is time to make ready to bring in everyone from the carpenters to the electricians to the plumbers. This includes some still needed demolition and still more wall paper to remove....yes more wall paper! 

Let the construction begin

Hey, hey...we are back!

It has been just a little over a month since the weekend which the house was lowered onto the new foundation. On the following Wednesday construction began. Our new sun-porch / entry / mudroom was the first thing to go up (in two days) followed the following week by finishing the basement. We have a crew of three guys doing the carpentry; Carol, Gino and Marc-André. They work like a superstorm; three independant twisters massing together to converge as a category five storm....it seems like that there is nothing that they cannot do!
The second week of construction brought in the crew from Levesque and McIntyre Electric to start the arduous task of fishing wire through the maze of walls and floors and the many fire stops hidden in the old walls.
As the addition was placed onto the back of the house, the old cedar shingles were removed from the outside wall to reveal the massive lumber which the house is constructed. One inch thick boards, some fourteen and sixteen inches wide, covered by a second layer of one inch boards...all covered by a layer of birch bark!! The original vapor barrier!
We have been very busy as of late and are sorry for not being as up to date with our photos....but stay tuned, we have more to come. Again, thanks for following!




Oui ! On est de retour....Depuis que la maison est revenue sur la terre ferme, tout va très, très vite !  Les charpentiers ont construit notre ralonge/ nouvelle entrée en deux jours seulement !  On découvre les dessous de la maison : du bois, des grosses planches, de l'écorce de bouleau...vraiment impressionnant !

Step one.....check!

Finally, after many sleepless weeks, the crew showed up on Saturday (two weeks ago) to lower the house down on to the new foundation.
After the foundation was poured it was suggested to allow the concrete to cure for at least a week before setting the house back down. It was an extremely cold and windy day but the crew from Victor Godin House Movers did not let that get in their way from doing their ''thang''. Super professional bunch of guys. After it was down and the beams removed, another seperate crew set in to put in the drainage around the foundation and ready it for the backfilling.
What a crazy few weeks! Later that day, I took Margot and Sarah down to Moncton for a quick two day trip; as Monday was a holiday for us, for some shopping and get-away- time....they deserved it for putting up with my hysteria during this part of our adventure.


Enfin, après quelques (longues) semaines notre maison allait redescendre.  Il faisait tellement froid pendant toute la journée, mais l'équipe de Victor Godin était concentrée à la tâche....une chance !  J'ai seulement pu rester quelques minutes pour voir la maison redescendre.  C'était un peu dur sur les nerfs...penche par en avant...penche par en arrière... !

Finalement, tout s'est très bien passé et oui, on méritait une belle fin de semaine à Moncton ! :)

Vraiment...un ouragan...vraiment !! Really....a hurricane...really!!

C'était déjà assez stressant de voir sa maison se tenir debout sur des petits blocs, trop semblables au jeu Jenga. Il a fallu que quelqu'un creuse tout le tour et surtout en dessous pour préparer le terrain pour la fondation.  Comme une cerise sur le sundae, on ajoute l'ouragan Sandy qui se dirigeait vers chez nous et surtout qui rencontrait une autre tempête...question de redoubler, voir même «retripler» notre niveau de stress. Deux semaines de nuits blanches : les vents vont-ils faire tomber notre maison ? La pluie torrentielle va-t-elle causer des glissements de terrain ? La pluie et les vents...

Finalement, Sandy aura été bien sage pour nous.  La fondation pouvait donc être coulée avec un peu de retard, mais quand même coulée.  C'était assez impressionnant de voir les gros camions se promener sur le terrain (très, très vaseux) tout près de la maison qui semblait si fragile.

Malheureusement, on a dû sacrifier quelques arbres pour les deux gros camions de ciment.  RIP mes deux beaux lilas en arrière de la maison.  Ça m'a fait de la peine, mais entre deux arbres ou pas de fondation, le choix n'était pas trop difficile...je me suis fait dire : «y'en a trois autres des arbres de lilas dans notre cours» !

En quelques jours, l'aspect de notre nouvelle maison a beaucoup changée...




Take one very old and heavy house, lift it five feet in the air, place it on blocks to play ''Jenga'', excavate all the earth around it to essentially make it ten feet in the air, now add one post tropical hurricane Sandy and what do you get.....about two weeks of constant worry and very little sleep!!

After the wow and cool factor of lifting the house, the realization of having our house supported on just a bunch of blocks of wood becomes all consuming; every other thought, morning, noon, and night....especially the night! I kept waiting for that early morning phone call....''Mr. Perry, there seems to have been an incident with your house...''. Now throw in for ''fun'' some post tropical hurricane Sandy winds and drenching rain for about three days! Talk about good timing to jack one's house in the air.

Two days after the initial lifting the footing was poured. We were hoping that the foundation would follow a couple of days later but there was a conflict in timing with our concrete guys. This is when Sandy rolled into town. They were able to put up the forms during the storm but running the concrete was impossible. That Wednesday night (Halloween), right after work, as the storm was fading, I headed down to the house to try and pump some of the three feet of water out of the hole and the forms. Stayed there into the night to try and ready it for cement the next morning. Everything went well except for a major house fire that I was called out to with our fire dept. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to choose your priorities in life; so to all my brothers and sister in the Charlo Volunteer Fire Dept.....I am sorry for not making it to this one.
The foundation was poured first thing the next morning.

The big dig....after the big lift....

Now that the house is in the air, the next step is to dig underneath and around to prepare the area for the forms for the footing and the foundation. The day following the lift the crew showed up with the shovel and the bulldozers to get the job done. Luckily the ground underneath was dry and just that; ground and no rock.
Sorry for the delay with this update but life has been very busy the last two weeks, but do not worry, there will be more to come very soon...thanks for following!



Enfin la maison est dans les airs ! Mais il y a tout un autre travail à faire : creuser sous la maison pour pouvoir installer les formes pour la fondation.  Pas mon genre de travail du tout...oufff !  On était (et les travailleurs aussi ) bien content de savoir qu'il n'y avait pas de grosses roches, mais seulement de la terre.

Les dernières semaines furent très occupées, mais tout devrait entrer dans l'ordre...les autres photos devraient suivre plus rapidement...merci de nous suivre !

More pictures from the lift / Encore quelques photos...

The BIG lift

Difficile à croire que des si petites machines hydroliques ont réussi à soulever une si grosse maison !  Oui, en quatre heures les poutres vieilles de 150 ans ont revu le jour !! Encore une fois, j'aimais beaucoup mieux ne pas être présente pour cette grande étape. Heureusement tout s'est bien passé....comme Eric le mentionne, l'équipe de Victor Godin était excellente.  À la fin de la journée, c'était impressionnant de voir cette grosse maison dans les airs, mais ce qui impressionnait le plus Sarah c'était de jouer aux archéologues et de fouiller la terre pour des trésors...de la poterie, un petit bout de pipe, des journaux...



When last we left you; we posted that last Thursday, the holes were dug, the blocking layed and the beams were placed and ready to go. On Monday the crew showed up to put the house in motion! After approx.150 years the house was free from it's Earthly restraints and raised towards the heavens....Two large trucks were used to power the hydraulic jacks; one truck in the front and the other in the back. A shout out to the three man crew from Victor Godin House Movers and Victor himself as they were super and made it look like child's play; it took about four hours with steady hands on the controls and many checks with the levels and tape measures to take it up. A quick check inside after it was all done proved that their smoothness payed off as there seemed to be no damage! There will be many more photos to come but these are a small bit to show the day.....

You want to do what with this house...?!?! / Vraiment ?!? Vous allez faire quoi ??

After a crazy two weeks of packing, cleaning, painting, being sick and finally moving out of our house....
On Thursday; the day before we are to officially become «of no fixed address» and just because we did not have enough stress at this point...the crew shows up early morning to prep the house to be lifted early next week.

Highlights : Nice dry ground, easy digging outside and underneath the house, everything seems to be sound and of no rot, two days work accomplished in one!

Lows : Never felt more stressed in my life !



Pauvre Eric, oui c'est vrai qu'il était vraiment stressé...pour ma part, je ne voulais juste pas voir ou savoir ce qui se passait.  Le stress de vendre notre maison prenait 100 % de place dans ma tête...mais finalement la curiosité l'a emporté.  Tout semblait tomber en place...juste des bonnes nouvelles : rien de pourri, belle terre... :)

Une autre découverte / Another discovery...

Cette page de blogue est dédiée à ma soeur (et François aussi) qui sont venus de Moncton pendant la longue fin de semaine pour nous donner un coup de main.

Ma soeur a découvert «l'enlèvage de tapisserie» et je crois qu'elle y a pris goût (idée de cadeau de Noël) !  C'était difficile de l'arrêter.  Je dois même dire qu'elle a eu des ampoules...une autre blessée à la maison !?!?!?  Hihihi...

Ils ont surtout travaillé à enlever la tapisserie dans la salle à manger.  Maman et Matante Léonie avaient débuté le travail et Karine et François ont terminé.  En dessous des nombreuses couches, le plâtre d'origine est peint et on peut y voir des «stencils» décoratifs...c'est tellement beau !

A big thank you to Margot's sister Karine and her partner François for coming up from Moncton over Thanksgiving to help with the wallpaper in the dining room. What a pleasant surprise to find under the layers of wallpaper that the walls had originally been painted with beautiful stenciling all around.

Voici le produit final....

Old and tired...rediscovered hardwood floors...or Margot and Eric

We have spent the past two weeks moving and cleaning our current house to be sold this Friday. We have been sick with flu and colds during this time, hence no more creativity...so just check out the hardwood floors that were hidden under two layers of plywood, various types of flooring and about a million nails.

We promise to be in better form soon.


Ça fait maintenant deux semaines que l'on nettoie et déménage afin de préparer notre maison de la rue Simon qui sera vendue ce vendredi.  Malheureusement, Mme la grippe et le M. le rhume se sont joints à nous pour nous rendre la tâche un peu plus difficile...notre imagination d'écriture est donc assez limité cette semaine ! Alors, voici donc les planchers de bois franc qui étaient cachés sous plusieurs couches de matériaux et, selon Eric, de million de clous !

Oui, nous serons de retour en pleine forme très bientôt !  :)

And you thought your house was dusty...? / Partout, partout de la poussière !

In our reno project, we are looking at redoing the entire kitchen.  As 150 or so years have not been too kind to some of the plaster walls and ceilings, we decided to bring on the hurt to these poor structures. Bring in myself, brother in law Tony and a big welcome back to Margot's father Jean-Marie.  As «safety first» has become our new motto, we decided to use some respirators and for Jean-Marie : Angus' old hard hat from the mill. 

The old plaster was made essentially from lime based mortar, sand and horse hair. Much more dense than modern dry wall and much more dusty.  With the aid of Jean-Marie's ice chopper it came off pretty well, and with the use of the snow scoop, it went out even better.  Behind the plaster, the entire walls and ceilings are lined with one inch laths, all hand nailed using little square nails.



De la poussière partout, partout, partout...!  Le plâtre de la cuisine devait être enlevé pour refaire la cuisine au complet.  150 ans passés, on n'avait pas le même plâtre que maintenant...celui dans notre maison est mélangé avec des poils de chevals !! 

On avait bien pris la peine de fermer les deux portes de la cuisine (bien pratique, les vieilles maisons ont des portes dans toutes les pièces !), mais la poussière du plâtre nous a trouvés dans le salon...et mes allergies qui recommencent ! Maman, Sarah et moi on a fait du ménage et on a préparé la vente de garage. À la fin de la journée, on avait de la poussière partout, partout, partout !! 

une, deux, trois...douze couches de tapisserie ! Back to the bathroom...

Aujourd'hui Matante Léonie, Maman, Sarah et moi on s'attaque à la tapisserie ! On découvre rapidement les vieilles tendances tapisserie au fil des ans : ça ressemble à un arc-en-ciel ... En tout, dans une des chambres, j'en ai compté douze couches ! 

Check out the rainbow of colors and designs found in the twelve layers of wallpaper in one of the bedrooms.

Au début de la journée, on a choisi par quelle chambre on voulait commencer.  Sarah et moi on a choisi l'ancienne chambre à Angus; Maman et Matante Léonie ont choisi de travailler dans le corridor.  Pauvres elles...mauvais choix !  Dans le corridor la tapisserie avait été peinturée, c'était extrêmement long et difficile à enlever; tandis que dans notre chambre, on pouvait enlever plusieurs couches à la fois ! Malgré tout le travail et les bras endoloris à la fin, on a eu une très belle journée.

Eric de son côté avait décidé de s'attaquer à la salle de bain...En enlevant le vieux bain, les armoires, le plancher en vinyl...il a découvert des petits trésors : un plancher en bois franc et encore de la tapisserie !



After Margot's father's experience in the bathroom left him with several stitches, it was left to me to complete the job.  After ripping out some drywall, 2x4's and finally the tub, what a «pleasant» surprise to see the old mactac stick-on wallpaper that Theresa loved so dearly.  Even more of a surprise was the original hardwood floor hiding beneath several funky types of flooring.  Even though there is a bit of water damage and missing pieces, we should be able to restore this «lost» treasure to a new glory.

During my attack on the bathroom, Margot, her mother, her aunt Léonie and Sarah decided to start removing the wallpaper upstairs.  They started in Angus' bedroom and then moved out into the hallway.  Our intention is to work through the many layers, some that are painted, some that are 12 layers thick to bring the original plaster hidden for so many years back to the light.

Take one day off (Thursday), add one old 4x4 truck, one electric chain saw and 3 rednecks...

Another part of our reno plan is to build a combination entry, mudroom and sun porch on the back of the house.  That means the old 1980's porch has to meet it's maker...literally ! Brother-in-law Tony built it and was brought in to remove it; along with his old 4x4. Along with myself, Margot's father Jean-Marie, a couple of reciprocating saws and a long sling attached to the 4x4, we were ready to tackle the porch. Thanks to Angus and his little electric chainsaw which helped big time in the crunch.

After several attempts with the 4x4 literally coming off the ground, the many five and six inch nails gave up their hold on the house and gave way to freedom for the porch.  Also seeking freedom that morning was one of Tony's abdominal muscles in way of a hernia. He promptly left once the porch and he had their final words.

This left Jean-Marie, Margot's mother Diane and myself wondering what to do next. Well after the porch, the next room in is the kitchen...off with the old cupboards !  I am sure my sisters would have clapped with joy seeing the old, really way-too-short counter and sink come out after the many years of bending over washing the dishes. This went rather quickly so we moved into the bathroom to finish off the early 1980's cabinets, tub and shower.  However, one piece of the cabinet did not want to go that quietly. It decided to fall onto Jean-Marie's head; along with it's many nails, gashing him enough to send him with Diane for some stitches.

Then, there was only one; me...... I called it a day.

Ce n'est qu'après l'école que j'ai su que mon Papa avait été «attaqué» par une planche et des clous !!  Ce soir-là, c'était notre rencontre de parents et ce n'est que très tard en soirée que j'ai pu aller voir mon père et ses points de suture !  Heureusement, il allait bien !!  Oufff....