PEI Apartment

This is what our empty apartment looks like. We will be downsizing by half to 925 square feet. We are going to store some items - since we hope to move into a small house on a small lot. Picture the living & dining area from the kitchen counter to the patio door - being the size of just my current living room (ie. move the dining table to the front of the fireplace). It will be cozy. There are 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, a storage area which is quite large - we may have to put our bookcases in there. For some reason or other, the balconies on any of the apartments we looked at, were very small. Basically room for two camp chairs and a very small BBQ. Totally unlike the balconies in Toronto or Vancouver. It must be due to the shorter summers for outdoor living. There is a small fitness room on the main floor, an elevator (although there are only 3 floors). But we are on the 3rd floor and hauling groceries, etc up 3 flights of stairs at our age - nah!. We are next to the laundry area - but there is a laundy area on each floor, so hopefully it won't be too noisy and there are posted hours for doing laundry. The best thing is that we have a month to month lease - so the apartment is temporary until we decide what to do next. We are just behind the Stratford Town Centre (a community centre) with a free indoor walking track and fitness area with all kinds of fitness machines. There is also quite a long walking trail (the Stratford Trail) which also goes by the apartments. So Dad will get his walking exercise (he is feeling so much better now and very happy to be moving to PEI). We quite like the area.

View from patio door back to kitchen. The dining table will be just in front of the white counter which is where the sink is and dishwasher are located.

The kitchen area, obviously. The stove is apartment size so the turkey will have to be apartment size too :)

View from the counter to the patio door. The balcony is just slightly wider than the patio door and about 5 feet out.

Last Garden Pics from NS

Greetings from Fall River, NS:
We will be moving to PEI at the end of September. Dad is very excited about that. I will continue with my job until mid October - hopefully stay with some friends while I train my replacement. The house sold well and fairly quickly for it being the middle of summer. The closing date is September 30. It will certainly be different moving into an apartment. Julee, I will have to get some advice from you.

The finished garden on slope at front of the house.



These look and feel like velvet. And doing well in the filtered sunlight.

Backyard garden which we can view from the deck. The ferns are naturally growing in background. The other plants came mostly from Grammie Penny's garden on PEI. How I wish I could take them back with me. Oh, well, I will steal some from my sister who also has some of Grammie's plants.

East side garden which Karen helped me with last year. It gets full sun, and my rose bushes love it.

Front garden again - so the grandkids can see my "bird" stone sitting on an old stump.