Fun in the Sun...

I mean SNOW...

 

Welcome to our Home!

Amazing what a few days and 25 degrees does! Here is the doorway, and on the left, the dining room window, and the "away room" to the right. The back wall shows the doorway out the back and the living room windows.

We are all very excited to have the builder close in and heat the basement soon. This will melt the piles of snow in there and thaw the ground. Sometime, the insulation and the flooring will go in.

Pretty soon, Tim will become very busy. His first job is to paint the wood for the window jambs. He'll then be putting in the insulation on the house, and eventually laying tubing for the in-floor heat. It must be

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wow!
Snow, snow, and MORE snow!! The ground hasn't had a chance to look dirty yet, since before Christmas. It is really beautiful, but amazingly it can still come down, even when temperatures hover around or below zero. I thought that couldn't happen?

Here is a photo of an almost updated view of the house! See the "walkout" basement windows, the door being further to the left and out of the shot. We run over there whenever we can to get more photos, but really lately there hasn't been much change. Too cold to be out there nailing boards!

We are, meanwhile, hitting the "slopes"! What a blast. Lottie says, "Whee!" and Gretl gets mad at me because we get tangled. She is really better off going down the hill by herself! Makenna and Elizabeth just take off and meet up with us later. Come join us if you can!