RESTORATION
Phase 2
Main
floor |
Partial Site
of Deck |
BACK
ENTRANCE WITH DOGGIE DOOR |
Back Entrance |
Back Entrance
Doggie Door |
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and
with company at lunch
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FAMILY ROOM
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(Red
brick fireplace to be replaced by stone and granite) |
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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
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RECKLESS
MOTHER
Pamela Matsuda- Dunn
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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
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“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)
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CHATEAU
les CHIENS
January 2013
August
2013
Fall 2013
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"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.'
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JOHN
VAILLANT
Author of “The
Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”
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Ernest
Hemmingway's childhood home
Oak Park, IL |
Front |
Back |
Carriage House |
Back Yard &
Cape
Blomidon
View
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From
the Minas Basin Dykes |
Our
front door
View:
Porch to West |
View:
Porch to East |
The DOGHOUSE
North
WOLFVILLE,
NOVA SCOTIA
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Furnishings
not ours
Allocations subject to change
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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
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Click
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below to join us on our 1st Journey
North
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Is
this "upward mobility?" |
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Click
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below to join us on Furniture
Arrives
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The
Move Arrives ~ 18-11-11 |
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Chateau
les Chiens begins to aquire Character
... and get noticed.
Recycling
Rule Book
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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 |
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RESTORATION
Phase
1
2nd
floor living quarters
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Ray
Gertridge (Electrician), David
Sogorka (General Contractor),
David Ripley (Designer - Beacon
Hill Design) |
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FAST
FORWARD
~UPSTAIRS~
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MASTER
BEDROOM
MASTER
BATHROOM
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his
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hers
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GUEST ROOM
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...and
bathroom
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CYNTHIA'S
CFO HEADQUARTERS
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RESTORATION
Phase
2
Main
floor |
Partial
Site of Deck |
BACK
ENTRANCE WITH DOGGIE DOOR |
Back
Entrance |
Back
Entrance Doggie Door |
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and
with company at lunch
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FAMILY ROOM
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(Red
brick fireplace to be replaced
by stone and granite) |
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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."
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G. K. CHESTERTON
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RECKLESS
MOTHER
Pamela Matsuda- Dunn
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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
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“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)
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Reckless
Mother
Book
sculpture by
Pamela Matsuda-Dunn |
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FOYER
AND STAIRWAY
Flora
from Boobie Garden
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Enter
Flora
Bob!
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VISITORS'
POWDER ROOM
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Powder Room Figure
Photography |
David Frawley &
Daniel C. Dugan |
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Back
Entrance and Mud Room
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BACK,
DECK & GARDEN |
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FOR
THE
OF DOG
BOOBIE
DECK AND GARDEN
NEW
BFF, SIMONE TWINKLENOSE
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CHILD
LABOUR
(Før
a F¢¢)
Andrew
and Christopher lend a hand |
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FOR
THIS!
First
Snow
23 November 2011
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RESTORATION
Phase
3
EXTERIOR |
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Almost
there...!
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C'est
tout!
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RESTORATION
Phase 4
KITCHEN |
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Daddy Bub's Pub |
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Let
There Be Light!
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Where
All Good Paintings Go to Die
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View
from our Bathtub
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Views
from the Master Toilet
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Views
from Bed
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Morning
at the Dining Room
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Going
nuts staring at blank walls?
HANG
ART!
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Living
Room
(pre-restoration)
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Dining
Room
(pre-restoration)
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Kitchen
(pre-restoration,
set for stage 3)
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Stairwell
& Landings
(partly
restored)
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Laundry
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Master
Bedroom
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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
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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.”
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PLUTARCH
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KITCHEN
UNVEILING
27
October 2013
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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
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"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
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FOR
THE
OF DOG
Phase
1 ~ INTERIOR SECTION*
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BOOBIE PARK
NORTH IS BORN
Future
Boobie Park Development
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TOTAL
BOOBIE PARK NORTH AREA
(when finished):
9,400 square feet
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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
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The
Carriage
House
ATELIER |
COURTESY
OF OUR TENANTS GEOFF & TRACI CROUSE
17
JANUARY 2014 |
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Canadian
Lawyer - LEE COHEN |
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"America
is the only country that went
from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between."
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OSCAR WILDE
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Annapolis
Basin
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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.
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The
Minas Basin from Blomidon
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The
Anapolis Valley from Blomidon
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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.
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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.
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Statue
of
EVANGELINE
at
Grand Pré National Historic Site
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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....
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We
Woofs!
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Daddy
Bob's Club
Home away from Home
Danny
& Michael
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prisoner of his own device ....
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Joe's
Food Emporium, Pub & Eatery
...and
alternate 'Club'
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The Port Pub / Sea Level BREWING
A
relassssing
place to watch the tides..., innn..., out.
"... watching the ti-ide roll a-wa-ayyy
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THE
GYM AT ACADIA UNIVERSITY
where Mommy Cindy is an aluminum
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Every
conceivable convenience
to be enjoyed
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What
happens to bicyclists who ride on sidewalks
makes Daddy Bob VERY
happy.
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Fresh
Seafood Steam Sealed at Supermarket |
Been
reading up on
'Spiritual' matters that
matter in CANADA.
Click
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above for info
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New
kid in town
New discovery
Microbrewed in Halifax
Click
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above for info
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Don't sweat it over The
DOGHOUSE 1.
It's
our FOREVER
HOME.
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ROBERT
COANE 2013 © All rights reserved |
Reckless
Mother
Book
sculpture by
Pamela Matsuda-Dunn |
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FOYER
AND STAIRWAY
Flora
from Boobie Garden
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Enter
Flora
Bob!
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VISITORS'
POWDER ROOM
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Powder Room Figure Photography |
David Frawley & Daniel C. Dugan
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Back
Entrance and Mud Room
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