"Green" Homes Tour

This past Sunday Prince Edward County held a tour of 'green' homes. It was nice to see what other people have done. The homeowners opened their homes to the public. The house in the picture below was featured on the Discovery channel with David Suzuki. Their home is off grid with solar panels and a wind turbine. They have straw bale walls and a green roof.



Tracy beside their wind turbine.


This is their green roof.


This next house is grid tied with solar panels and 2 wind turbines. He doesn't sell his surplus back to hydro, he just lets him meter run backwards and then draws from his credit when needed.


The next home had a 900 watt wind turbine. The wind turbines I was were surprisingly quiet.


This home is off-grid. Solar panels and a 3000 watt wind turbine.


Shameless photo of my off-grid home (not on the tour)


My solar panel array.


Tracy planted a vegetable garden for me this weekend. I'm anxious to see what comes up. The trick will be to eat the produce before the rabbits do.

Paint

Tim and his friends came up for the weekend again.....They asked me if I could buy some dry ice.....they wanted to show me something........ They blew up a bunch of plastic water bottles. Then they wanted to see how high they could launch my yellow bucket (the one by Tim's feet). Lets just say my bucket is now in about 10 pieces....


They had a chopping competition to see who could get through the log first. I think Tim won.


The drywall sanding is now done (yeah!!!!) I am now starting to prime the walls.


The loft upstairs


The master bedroom.


The spare bedroom


Shameless picture of my bike. My first ride of this season. It was great to get on it again!