The House and Buildings

Main Floor:

Power in every room

Entrance:

Lobby area with shoe racks, coat-ready hooks, washing machine (clothes), Large larder + tall Large fridge convertible to the freezer. F10 + Access to CELLAR from the lobby area.

Kitchen:
Phone, dishwasher, modern gas cooker, double sink, counter spaces, dish cupboards, drawers, table, air conditioner, High fridge F9, cutlery drawers, Fire extinguisher, etc.

Washroom:
Bath, shower, toilet, sink, glazed window, etc.

Stairs to the right on entering the Dining Room.

Dining Room:
Phone. Large strong wooden table with six wooden chairs. Classy glass and wood Cabinet, Vitamin cupboard, and drawers. Ironing board (folds discretely into wall). Ham Radio Wireless station.

Living Room:
Wood-fueled fireplace, Large viewing TV/computer. Easy chair recliner and sofa. View of flowers via solarium window. Fire extinguisher.

Master Bedroom:
Walk-in clothes closet, essential oils storage shelves, drawers, cupboard, window to outside area. double bed.

Office Spaces:
Small space adjoining the living room. Phone, two desks with chairs and internet connections. lots of shelving.

Solarium:
Double-glazed for year-round flower growing/seed starting area (good extra insulation for HOMESTEAD). Large 4′ tropical fish tank (viewable through office B window). Air Water Purifier (generates water from the atmosphere). Double-glazed Solarium door to berry-garden bushes and 4′ outer gate on 68th Avenue.

Upstairs:
Walking up past the window landing leads up to the attic main landing with wardrobe and two double bedrooms + one single bedroom. Skylight windows, small toilet, lobby with coffee table and (small) fridge 2. + Storage cupboard for dry goods.

Lower Level / CELLAR:
Accessed via Trapdoor from front of Lobby larder. Natural gas Water furnace can be lit via the installed inverter if power is out. A place for hanging clothes, food storage shelving, two F7 & F6 freezers, then a Doorway to the ex-rental area. Past Winery shelving corridor with bottled wines, juices, and such, new and old. More storage of many survival essentials. Electric stove (long unused). Small fridge SmF5 more boxes of wine, stored by the year for years, etc. Single Bed piled with storage of cases of dehydrated foodstuffs, etc. food shelving.

Electric Panel:
Can be adapted to run the house from an outside generator during a power-out (just a quick change of plug-ins). Toilet w/shower – water and effluence run via (presently not connected) electric pump. Small double freezer-cupboard used for winter coats + small freezers, sF4 & sF3.

Garages:
Separate electric panel for garages. Garage double doors. The heated main garage with an automated garage door is secure for one vehicle and also has a carpenter’s bench with vice and many kinds of hand tools, power tools, equipment, paint, painting supplies, electric, sprayers. Fire extinguisher, chainsaw, saws, nails, tacks, screws, etc. Extra insulation on outer walls. The entrance door to the Boathouse from the Main Garage is presently used for bulk-secured grain + dry-goods storage.

Second Garage:
Also Kept at a relatively even temperature all year round. High multiple shelving mostly for canned food storage, winter Tires, + three cooling storage SF 2 &1 units.

Garage Attic Area:
Entered by a two-storey ladder from the tall double gate inner area. Used for old (could possibly be useful) stuff-type storage. The Aluminium Garage roof is long, sun-facing, large, and very suitable for installing half a dozen future solar panels.

9+ Extra Outbuildings:
Garages, greenhouse, wine bottle storage shack chicken coop, grain shed, hay and wood pellet shack, old ex-duck house, outdoor toilet, bike & summer lawn chairs storage shed, and sF9 out-outbuilding at the front door.

Also:
Four stepladders, large & small sizes. Lots of spare plywood, tin or aluminum sheet metal, wood 2X4s, etc. for projects. Long lumber-covered storage by the left side of the garage. Several cold frames that do need repairing. crossbow+ and ammo,. Sewing kit and the like.

The Garden and Yard

The Lawn:
16TH Street inside lawn is about 30’ x 30’ surrounded by a smoothish (river stones) pathway, benches, gooseberry bushes, redcurrant bushes, flowers, herbs, raspberries, etc., and two types of Vine grapes. Concord and Coronation.

Horticultural Garden:
Pathways to easily reach the many raised beds with Concord, Coronation, Beta, and Fosch vineyard grapes around the edges. Hoses are kept during winter in a series of cupboards between the garden and the ‘Jar Corridor’ – another insulation benefit for the Homestead. Overhead watering system for agricultural parts of the garden.

Garden Produces:
Raspberries, Strawberries, thornless Blackberries, and whatever Vegetables you plant. This year produced abundant Yams, Cantaloupe, Kale, Cabbage, Lettuce, Broccoli, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Garlic, turnip, Orac, Corn etc. etc.
Sour Cherries, Peas, and Beans were slow this year, but are not normally so.

Trees:
Pears from an Anjou Pear tree next to the Lawn plus 1 Italian plum and 1 pear next to the greenhouse.

The Orchard:
Bartlet pear, apple, and 2 prune plums plus an apricot tree (IS ON OUR PROPERTY but the trunk is outside of the orchard area). This has a bench for meditating.

Vineyard grapes & wines:
You’ll also get Apricots, mostly from the old Apricot tree but also from a couple of newer apricot trees that are beginning to produce next to the lawn pathway. The Sour Cherry tree has been slow for the last two years and probably needs some dunging round about. Two Large compost heaps at the end of the garden area need to be spread throughout the garden before Spring to ensure another good crop of whatever you plant. Lots of work!

Garden Shed and Garden Tools:
Lawnmower, spades, rakes, picks, mulcher, whippersnippers, anti-mosquito lamp, etc. Moving on past the #1 Rain Water Barrel we turn left past the Peas and Tomato Tower area on the right and past the #2 Rain Water Barrel on the left towards the Chicken Coops area. The Rhubarb plants are looking a bit tired from all this sunny weather, but they are still ‘leafy’. They hardly got used this year. Straight ahead is the Granary with all the stored Chicken food scratch, grain, pellets, and such. On the left is the storage shack for wood pellets and chicken straw.

Chicken Coop:
Auto early daylight in the winter gives Lots of eggs all year round. The whole coop area is completely covered with netting to keep predators out. such as raccoons, skunks, etc. There is an adjoining area where the chickens may roam and scratch for bugs, worms, and so on, freely during the daylight hours. The summer washing lines are in a separate area nearby.

Back to the 16th entrance area:
The outer fence is about 8 feet high and the gate is secured at night. Walking the concrete path under the Grape Vine pathway towards the door and past the Roses, we see #3 Rain Water Barrel on our left and an sF9 out-outbuilding on our right. they have an extra insulation Jar corridor storage for canning provisions, winter boots, etc. If we had turned left, past the summer kitchen and juice processing area (needs special insulation during winter) Outside propane cooker + double sink + spirit Still, Shelving. We pass the large, insulated, heatable Greenhouse and the Nettle patch cold frame on our left. Dehydrating equipment in the greenhouse. Multiple shelving for early seeding.

Our Main Woodpile:
Boxes of chopped logs stacked behind both the Greenhouse and the bottle storage shack /+ garden coverings/nettings, veggie coverings, frost blankets, frost guards, traps (mouse, rat, skunk, and raccoon) triple charger for batteries for winter charging, etc. A couple of Solar panels are on the bottle shack roof. Lots of extra pots/flowerpots, etc. for ‘tower growing’ in drier weather. Two-and-a-half-foot concrete fire cooker for use if/when the power goes out.

Outer Freezer #12:
Here is #4 Rain-Water Barrel, next to one of the small pear trees. Just past the large emergency insulated water storage tank on the right, fitted with a non-freeze mechanism for winter use. Next is our # 5 Rain-Water Barrel, Wireless flagpole, and secured Generator room in which you will see the built-in large generator and log splitter plus storage for our emergency stock of imitation wood fuel. This is all inside a lockable metal grill. Measured Plywood Window panels are also stored here in preparation for possible hurricane-type emergencies. Large 8′ secured outside gate leads to unsecured 4’ outer fence, Redcurrant and Blackcurrant berry bushes area on 68th Avenue + #6 Rain Water Barrel. The 16th and 68th rows of bulbs give wonderful spring flower colors around the outer rim of Homestead on 68th.

From the 16th front door:
Just a short walk on a concrete pathway to the two garages, mostly under the Bower of #2 Apricot tree branches, and past the bike shed leads to the outer walkway corridor to gate#2 past the garage. Flat carrier Dolly and upright dolly, Metal car ramps. Numerous barrels. bike racks. Workman’s entrance secured gate.

Around the Perimeter of the Property:
Numerous trees, fir, cedar, spruce, and the like. Horse radish, summer floral displays on outside areas of the property. Quiet street. Lots of room to street park on 68th Avenue or 16th Street. Low traffic area. Water hydrant right on Corner of 16th & 68th. Walking distance to large grocery stores and even downtown stores.