2 Engineers Retired

Most of you know that our cottage is kind of old/new. Our cottage in all its soon to be improved glory It was originally built in the 70s in the Muskoka area of Ontario.  It is a Panabode – which is a type of red cedar building from British Columbia that is produced from shaped cedar logs.  The joints between the logs are double tongue and groove and the whole thing stacks together like Lego (or apparently like Lincoln logs which I have never seen).  It is quite a cool concept – but notoriously difficult to add on to.  The previous owners of our cottage wanted something larger, and instead of razing the old place they disassembled it and put it up for sale on Kijiji. Which is where we found it – a disassembled Panabode – essentially a pile of used wood. So we bought it, transported it to our site and rebuilt it.  (Okay – it was a bit more complicated than that).  In any case the final look was a cottage that looked like it had always been t...

Most of you probably know that Bob has a major car hobby.   Our garage is twice the size of the cottage – which apparently results in sighs from other car obsessed people (not me I’m afraid ….). One part of this hobby is a 1984 Porsche 911  mostly the shape and colour that one pictures if you say the word Porsche.  Oddly, as an older car, it is more a time pit rather than a money pit.  The depreciation is long over and the internet has allowed part replacement to be easier and cheaper than ever. Over the 15 years it has been in the garage, Bob has had it almost totally apart – engine rebuild, replaced suspension, etc. While in the past Bob raced and did some other competitive things,  for the past couple of decades he has focused on track events., which are non-competitive events held at racetracks to provide an opportunity to drive fast in a controlled environment.  He takes the 911 to Porsche Club events, where he is an instructor, coac...