CHATEAU les CHIENS

January 2013


August 2013


Fall 2013

 



"When people ask me, an American expat, what it’s like living in Canada, I tell them, 'It’s kind of like living in the States,
if the States were on lithium.' "

JOHN VAILLANT
Author of “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”




Ernest Hemmingway's childhood home
Oak Park, IL



Front


Back


Carriage House


Back Yard & Cape Blomidon View


From the Minas Basin Dykes

ORIGINAL
RESTORATION
GROUND FLOOR


SECOND FLOOR




Our front door



View: Porch to West


View: Porch to East



The DOGHOUSE North
WOLFVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA

* Furnishings not ours
Allocations subject to change

1-Dining Room; 2a-Proposed Library/Gallery; 2b-View from Library/Gallery/Office into Living Room; 3a-Living Room;
3b-View from Living Room into Library/Gallery/Office; 4-Kitchen; 5-Master Bedroom; 6-Guest Room;
7-Presently Bathroom and small bedroom to be converted into Bathroom/Dressing Room;
8-Second Guest Room/Office





Our Back Yard



Click below to join us on our 1st Journey North



Is this "upward mobility?"
Click below to join us on Furniture Arrives



The Move Arrives ~ 18-11-11

Chateau les Chiens begins to aquire Character
... and get noticed.

Recycling Rule Book


Among the Ruins

Forever, Dogs!
Daddy Bob's First Puppy Love
SPOTTY
a.k.a.
Texas Sunrise Zakawoista II


All those steps. Baby Frida's gonna lose weight.
Baby Frida steals cookie crumbs while Sophie drinks

RESTORATION
Phase 1


2nd floor living quarters

Ray Gertridge (Electrician), David Sogorka (General Contractor),
David Ripley (Designer - Beacon Hill Design)

 


FAST FORWARD
~
UPSTAIRS~



LAUNDRY

MASTER BEDROOM


AQUARIUS
LEO

MASTER BATHROOM


his

hers


GUEST ROOM

...and bathroom

CYNTHIA'S CFO HEADQUARTERS

 

RESTORATION
Phase 2


Main floor

Partial Site of Deck
BACK ENTRANCE WITH DOGGIE DOOR

Back Entrance

Back Entrance Doggie Door
.

WORKERS AT WORK

and with company at lunch


FAMILY ROOM


(Red brick fireplace to be replaced by stone and granite)

a room with a view ... of the Barnside and future formal garden

CENTER OF OPERATIONS

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
~ G. K. CHESTERTON

 

RECKLESS MOTHER
Pamela Matsuda- Dunn

 

Family Room Desk-Library Area

Bookshelves Plan

"There are artists...who are as much the authors of their millieux as of their work.”
~ HILTON KRAMER


"The only world that won't disappoint me is the one I make up."
~ FRANCIS BACON


"My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought."
~ THOMAS EAKINS



Fireplace Fitted with Wood Insert

Sandstone Mantelpiece









"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
~ JAMES THURBER


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

~ H.L. MENCKEN

SALON

Thinking of Cronshaw, Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had given him, telling him that it offered an answer to his question upon the meaning of life; and suddenly the answer occurred to him: he chuckled: now that he had it, it was like one of the puzzles which you worry over till you are shown the solution and then cannot imagine how it could ever have escaped you. The answer was obvious. Life had no meaning.”

Of Human Bondage

~ W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
English playwright, novelist and short story writer
(1874 – 1965)








CHATEAU les CHIENS

January 2013


August 2013


Fall 2013

 



"When people ask me, an American expat, what it’s like living in Canada, I tell them, 'It’s kind of like living in the States,
if the States were on lithium.' "

JOHN VAILLANT
Author of “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”




Ernest Hemmingway's childhood home
Oak Park, IL



Front


Back


Carriage House


Back Yard & Cape Blomidon View


From the Minas Basin Dykes

ORIGINAL
RESTORATION
GROUND FLOOR


SECOND FLOOR




Our front door



View: Porch to West


View: Porch to East



The DOGHOUSE North
WOLFVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA

* Furnishings not ours
Allocations subject to change

1-Dining Room; 2a-Proposed Library/Gallery; 2b-View from Library/Gallery/Office into Living Room; 3a-Living Room;
3b-View from Living Room into Library/Gallery/Office; 4-Kitchen; 5-Master Bedroom; 6-Guest Room;
7-Presently Bathroom and small bedroom to be converted into Bathroom/Dressing Room;
8-Second Guest Room/Office





Our Back Yard



Click below to join us on our 1st Journey North



Is this "upward mobility?"
Click below to join us on Furniture Arrives



The Move Arrives ~ 18-11-11

Chateau les Chiens begins to aquire Character
... and get noticed.

Recycling Rule Book


Among the Ruins

Forever, Dogs!
Daddy Bob's First Puppy Love
SPOTTY
a.k.a.
Texas Sunrise Zakawoista II


All those steps. Baby Frida's gonna lose weight.
Baby Frida steals cookie crumbs while Sophie drinks

RESTORATION
Phase 1


2nd floor living quarters

Ray Gertridge (Electrician), David Sogorka (General Contractor),
David Ripley (Designer - Beacon Hill Design)

 


FAST FORWARD
~
UPSTAIRS~



LAUNDRY

MASTER BEDROOM


AQUARIUS
LEO

MASTER BATHROOM


his

hers


GUEST ROOM

...and bathroom

CYNTHIA'S CFO HEADQUARTERS

 

RESTORATION
Phase 2


Main floor

Partial Site of Deck
BACK ENTRANCE WITH DOGGIE DOOR

Back Entrance

Back Entrance Doggie Door
.

WORKERS AT WORK

and with company at lunch


FAMILY ROOM


(Red brick fireplace to be replaced by stone and granite)

a room with a view ... of the Barnside and future formal garden

CENTER OF OPERATIONS

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
~ G. K. CHESTERTON

 

RECKLESS MOTHER
Pamela Matsuda- Dunn

 

Family Room Desk-Library Area

Bookshelves Plan

"There are artists...who are as much the authors of their millieux as of their work.”
~ HILTON KRAMER


"The only world that won't disappoint me is the one I make up."
~ FRANCIS BACON


"My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought."
~ THOMAS EAKINS



Fireplace Fitted with Wood Insert

Sandstone Mantelpiece









"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
~ JAMES THURBER


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

~ H.L. MENCKEN

SALON

Thinking of Cronshaw, Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had given him, telling him that it offered an answer to his question upon the meaning of life; and suddenly the answer occurred to him: he chuckled: now that he had it, it was like one of the puzzles which you worry over till you are shown the solution and then cannot imagine how it could ever have escaped you. The answer was obvious. Life had no meaning.”

Of Human Bondage

~ W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
English playwright, novelist and short story writer
(1874 – 1965)






Reckless Mother
Book sculpture by
Pamela Matsuda-Dunn

Dining Room
Rococo Room




FOYER AND STAIRWAY
Flora from Boobie Garden

Enter Flora Bob!






VISITORS' POWDER ROOM


Powder Room Figure Photography

David Frawley & Daniel C. Dugan

Back Entrance and Mud Room


BACK, DECK & GARDEN



FOR THE OF DOG

BOOBIE DECK AND GARDEN


NEW BFF, SIMONE TWINKLENOSE






 

GETTING READY...


CHILD LABOUR
(Før a F¢¢)


Andrew and Christopher lend a hand



FOR THIS!

First Snow
23 November 2011


RESTORATION
Phase 3


EXTERIOR




Almost there...!


C'est tout!



R
ESTORATION
Phase 4


KITCHEN



 

Daddy Bub's Pub

Let There Be Light!

 

Where All Good Paintings Go to Die




View from our Bathtub



Views from the Master Toilet



Views from Bed

 


 


Morning at the Dining Room

Going nuts staring at blank walls?
HANG ART!



Living Room
(pre-restoration)



Dining Room
(pre-restoration)



Kitchen
(pre-restoration, set for stage 3)



Stairwell & Landings
(partly restored)




Laundry


Saba Seascape
Commode

 


Master Bedroom


Since Thanksgiving in the States is end of November and beginning of October in Canada and our plan is to come up each year around Halloween,

I believe we've seen our last.


Waiting for Gobbleot



THANKSGIVING 2012 WITH JEAN AND DARYL DE WOLF IN WOLFVILLE

We invite each other not to eat and drink, but to eat and drink together.”
~ PLUTARCH

KITCHEN UNVEILING
27 October 2013


Guests Present ~
Paul Callaghan, Jean and Darryl DeWolf, Stephen Drahos, Lella Gmainer, ?????, Debbie and Terry Hines, Mary and Michael Howell, Mary Ann and Tony Marissink, Greg and Marjorie McNeill, Susan Meldrum, David Smart, Janice Wells

FIRST SCOTIA GROOMING
29 November 2012

"Mind you, Michelle (our NEW bootishun Up North), we's no Scotties. We's SCHNOOZERS!
Check out
Fancy Pawz Roamin' Salon

 

Sogorka Crew's Xmas at Paddy's 2012

 


FOR THE OF DOG

Phase 1 ~ INTERIOR SECTION*



BOOBIE PARK NORTH IS BORN

Future Boobie Park Development

* TOTAL BOOBIE PARK NORTH AREA (when finished):
9,400 square feet






Over the Dikes


Blomidon in the Distance






Chateau les Chiens from The Dikes Doggie Trail
This is Our New Dogrun!

Off Leash and on the Prowl

Sophie longs to run across them mud flats at low tide

 

The Carriage House

ATELIER




 





COURTESY OF OUR TENANTS GEOFF & TRACI CROUSE


17 JANUARY 2014








Canadian wife - CYNTHIA
Canadian Lawyer - LEE COHEN


"America is the only country that went
from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between."

~ OSCAR WILDE

 

 




Annapolis Basin



Funnel shaped BAY of FUNDY, between the coasts of Nova Scotia and Maine, has the widest tidal range in the world, 55 feet. From high tide to low tide, water levels rise or fall 55 feet, leaving wide open mud flats where there was ocean just hours before.

The sudden change in the direction of the tide from low to high twice a day creates a wave called the Tidal Bore that fills in the Annapolis Basin, a phenomenon that exists nowhere else but here.


 

 




Blomidon in the Distance



The Minas Basin from Blomidon


The Anapolis Valley from Blomidon





A BRIEF HISTORY

 Although Sieur De Monts and Samuel de Champlain established a trading post at Port-Royal in 1605 in what was then New France, the French hold over Acadia was fragile and intermittent until 1632 when the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye confirmed French possession of the region.

During the early 1630s, almost three hundred French immigrants arrived in the Port-Royal area.  With a high birth rate and low infant mortality, the population reached approximately 500 people in 1671, 1,400 in 1707, and about 13,000 people in the early 1750s.  From the initial core at Port-Royal, Acadian settlement spread around the Bay of Fundy as well as onto Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and to Pentagoet at the mouth of the Penobscot River in Maine.

The population depended on mixed farming and raising livestock and crops from dyked marshes. 

At the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, much of the area settled by the Acadians was transferred to the British who called the territory Nova Scotia. The British strengthened Port-Royal, renaming it Annapolis Royal, and then, in 1749, constructed a fortified town at Halifax;

With the outbreak of the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) in 1754, concerned at the large Acadian presence in the hinterland of Halifax and aware that many Acadians had refused to swear loyalty to the British crown, the military governor of Nova Scotia took the fateful decision to clear the Acadians from their settlements. A defining moment in the history of the Acadian people, the deportation also changed irrevocably the human geography of what is today Canada’s Maritime Provinces.       

The deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia and adjacent areas was to points around the Atlantic rim. Acadians were shipped to many points around the Atlantic.  Large numbers were deported to the continental colonies, others to France.  Some managed to escape to New France (Quebec).  A handful arrived in the Upper Saint John Valley.  Many moved several times; a great number left the American colonies at the end of the war and returned to Nova Scotia; many of those in France moved to the French Caribbean or  to Louisiana, where they formed the basis of the Cajun population.

Those Acadians who returned to Nova Scotia in the 1780s and 1790s found their former settlements occupied by American settlers and Loyalists.  As a result, the Acadians occupied new areas in western Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, the eastern shore of New Brunswick, and the Gaspé Peninsula.  In these areas, they drew a living from farming, inshore fishing, lumbering, and shipbuilding.

 

SIEUR DE MONTS
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

PORT ROYAL RECONSTRUCTION




The National Historic Site at Grand-Pré
commemorates the 1755 deportation of Acadians by the British and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous 1847 tragic poem, Evangeline, about the separation of two lovers as a result of the expulsion.


Statue of
EVANGELINE
at
Grand Pré National Historic Site




Wolfville is the home of ACADIA UNIVERSITY, where Mommy Cindy went to college to become a kem'stry sintist. It's one of the top schools in Nova Scochah, Canada (north of the border).

Then she met Daddy Bob....




We

Woofs!




Daddy Bob's Club
Home away from Home




Danny & Michael


... prisoner of his own device ....




Joe's Food Emporium, Pub & Eatery

...and alternate 'Club'

ß

The Port Pub / Sea Level BREWING

A relassssing place to watch the tides..., innn..., out.
"... watching the ti-ide roll a-wa-ayyy ...."



THE GYM AT ACADIA UNIVERSITY
where Mommy Cindy is an aluminum


Every conceivable convenience
to be enjoyed



What happens to bicyclists who ride on sidewalks
makes Daddy Bob VERY happy.

 



Fresh Seafood Steam Sealed at Supermarket



Been reading up on
'Spiritual' matters that
matter in CANADA.
Click above for info


New kid in town
New discovery
Microbrewed in Halifax
Click above for info

 

 

Don't sweat it over The DOGHOUSE 1.
It's our FOREVER HOME.

 





ROBERT COANE 2013 © All rights reserved

 

 

 


Reckless Mother
Book sculpture by
Pamela Matsuda-Dunn

Dining Room
Rococo Room




FOYER AND STAIRWAY
Flora from Boobie Garden

Enter Flora Bob!






VISITORS' POWDER ROOM


Powder Room Figure Photography

David Frawley & Daniel C. Dugan

Back Entrance and Mud Room


BACK, DECK & GARDEN



FOR THE OF DOG

BOOBIE DECK AND GARDEN


NEW BFF, SIMONE TWINKLENOSE






 

GETTING READY...


CHILD LABOUR
(Før a F¢¢)


Andrew and Christopher lend a hand



FOR THIS!

First Snow
23 November 2011


RESTORATION
Phase 3


EXTERIOR




Almost there...!


C'est tout!



R
ESTORATION
Phase 4


KITCHEN



 

Daddy Bub's Pub

Let There Be Light!

 

Where All Good Paintings Go to Die




View from our Bathtub



Views from the Master Toilet



Views from Bed

 


 


Morning at the Dining Room

Going nuts staring at blank walls?
HANG ART!



Living Room
(pre-restoration)



Dining Room
(pre-restoration)



Kitchen
(pre-restoration, set for stage 3)



Stairwell & Landings
(partly restored)




Laundry


Saba Seascape
Commode

 


Master Bedroom


Since Thanksgiving in the States is end of November and beginning of October in Canada and our plan is to come up each year around Halloween,

I believe we've seen our last.


Waiting for Gobbleot



THANKSGIVING 2012 WITH JEAN AND DARYL DE WOLF IN WOLFVILLE

We invite each other not to eat and drink, but to eat and drink together.”
~ PLUTARCH

KITCHEN UNVEILING
27 October 2013


Guests Present ~
Paul Callaghan, Jean and Darryl DeWolf, Stephen Drahos, Lella Gmainer, ?????, Debbie and Terry Hines, Mary and Michael Howell, Mary Ann and Tony Marissink, Greg and Marjorie McNeill, Susan Meldrum, David Smart, Janice Wells

FIRST SCOTIA GROOMING
29 November 2012

"Mind you, Michelle (our NEW bootishun Up North), we's no Scotties. We's SCHNOOZERS!
Check out
Fancy Pawz Roamin' Salon

 

Sogorka Crew's Xmas at Paddy's 2012

 


FOR THE OF DOG

Phase 1 ~ INTERIOR SECTION*



BOOBIE PARK NORTH IS BORN

Future Boobie Park Development

* TOTAL BOOBIE PARK NORTH AREA (when finished):
9,400 square feet






Over the Dikes


Blomidon in the Distance






Chateau les Chiens from The Dikes Doggie Trail
This is Our New Dogrun!

Off Leash and on the Prowl

Sophie longs to run across them mud flats at low tide

 

The Carriage House

ATELIER




 





COURTESY OF OUR TENANTS GEOFF & TRACI CROUSE


17 JANUARY 2014








Canadian wife - CYNTHIA
Canadian Lawyer - LEE COHEN


"America is the only country that went
from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between."

~ OSCAR WILDE

 

 




Annapolis Basin



Funnel shaped BAY of FUNDY, between the coasts of Nova Scotia and Maine, has the widest tidal range in the world, 55 feet. From high tide to low tide, water levels rise or fall 55 feet, leaving wide open mud flats where there was ocean just hours before.

The sudden change in the direction of the tide from low to high twice a day creates a wave called the Tidal Bore that fills in the Annapolis Basin, a phenomenon that exists nowhere else but here.


 

 




Blomidon in the Distance



The Minas Basin from Blomidon


The Anapolis Valley from Blomidon





A BRIEF HISTORY

 Although Sieur De Monts and Samuel de Champlain established a trading post at Port-Royal in 1605 in what was then New France, the French hold over Acadia was fragile and intermittent until 1632 when the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye confirmed French possession of the region.

During the early 1630s, almost three hundred French immigrants arrived in the Port-Royal area.  With a high birth rate and low infant mortality, the population reached approximately 500 people in 1671, 1,400 in 1707, and about 13,000 people in the early 1750s.  From the initial core at Port-Royal, Acadian settlement spread around the Bay of Fundy as well as onto Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and to Pentagoet at the mouth of the Penobscot River in Maine.

The population depended on mixed farming and raising livestock and crops from dyked marshes. 

At the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, much of the area settled by the Acadians was transferred to the British who called the territory Nova Scotia. The British strengthened Port-Royal, renaming it Annapolis Royal, and then, in 1749, constructed a fortified town at Halifax;

With the outbreak of the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) in 1754, concerned at the large Acadian presence in the hinterland of Halifax and aware that many Acadians had refused to swear loyalty to the British crown, the military governor of Nova Scotia took the fateful decision to clear the Acadians from their settlements. A defining moment in the history of the Acadian people, the deportation also changed irrevocably the human geography of what is today Canada’s Maritime Provinces.       

The deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia and adjacent areas was to points around the Atlantic rim. Acadians were shipped to many points around the Atlantic.  Large numbers were deported to the continental colonies, others to France.  Some managed to escape to New France (Quebec).  A handful arrived in the Upper Saint John Valley.  Many moved several times; a great number left the American colonies at the end of the war and returned to Nova Scotia; many of those in France moved to the French Caribbean or  to Louisiana, where they formed the basis of the Cajun population.

Those Acadians who returned to Nova Scotia in the 1780s and 1790s found their former settlements occupied by American settlers and Loyalists.  As a result, the Acadians occupied new areas in western Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, the eastern shore of New Brunswick, and the Gaspé Peninsula.  In these areas, they drew a living from farming, inshore fishing, lumbering, and shipbuilding.

 

SIEUR DE MONTS
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

PORT ROYAL RECONSTRUCTION




The National Historic Site at Grand-Pré
commemorates the 1755 deportation of Acadians by the British and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous 1847 tragic poem, Evangeline, about the separation of two lovers as a result of the expulsion.


Statue of
EVANGELINE
at
Grand Pré National Historic Site




Wolfville is the home of ACADIA UNIVERSITY, where Mommy Cindy went to college to become a kem'stry sintist. It's one of the top schools in Nova Scochah, Canada (north of the border).

Then she met Daddy Bob....




We

Woofs!




Daddy Bob's Club
Home away from Home




Danny & Michael


... prisoner of his own device ....




Joe's Food Emporium, Pub & Eatery

...and alternate 'Club'

ß

The Port Pub / Sea Level BREWING

A relassssing place to watch the tides..., innn..., out.
"... watching the ti-ide roll a-wa-ayyy ...."



THE GYM AT ACADIA UNIVERSITY
where Mommy Cindy is an aluminum


Every conceivable convenience
to be enjoyed



What happens to bicyclists who ride on sidewalks
makes Daddy Bob VERY happy.

 



Fresh Seafood Steam Sealed at Supermarket



Been reading up on
'Spiritual' matters that
matter in CANADA.
Click above for info


New kid in town
New discovery
Microbrewed in Halifax
Click above for info

 

 

Don't sweat it over The DOGHOUSE 1.
It's our FOREVER HOME.

 





ROBERT COANE 2013 © All rights reserved