When we got married last September we asked all our guests for money rather than wedding presents for three reasons; 1)We wanted to go on honeymoon, 2)We planned on moving to Canada and 3) We wanted to buy a canoe when we got there!

Since we arrived in Nova Scotia in October we’ve been looking out for a canoe. We’ve looked everywhere and quickly became depressed when we realized that a new canoe was a lot more expensive than we had anticipated. Time for Plan B – www.kijiji.ca! but still we had no luck! Plan C – go for a walk around your local town and look in people’s gardens.

We (well actually, Cameron’s parents) spotted a canoe in the garden of a gentleman that lives at the top of our road. It looked good but rather in need of some TLC. We simply asked him if he could consider selling it, he replied ‘make me an offer’, we did and the canoe was ours.

As mentioned before it was in need of some work, so we got to it. We carried the canoe home and placed it in our garden…

Step one – a trip to the hardware store for some sand paper!

Step Two – sand it!

Step 3 – prop it up and hose off all the dust!

Step 4 – time for a coat of primer!

Step 5 – allow to dry overnight …

Tags: canoe, gardens, lunenburg, parents, primer, work

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