Our New Home

Well folks, we finally found a lovely house to call our home. Here it is:

The previous owners, and builders, began it's construction in 1969 and worked on it over the subsequent years. It's on a south facing slope, is on over 3.5 acres and has a shed, garden plot, lots of berries, rhubarb, a well (most houses in our neighborhood don't and have to get water hauled or delivered), and an incredible view of the Alaska Range.

the view from our front window, our deck has a picnic table built in

The sunshine coming in the living room is quite lovely, and at this time of year it's quite warm even. Even when it isn't sunny out, our house is quite bright and cheery. I put a bird feeder out near the picnic table and we got birds within an hour. Our birdy visitors are mostly red polls and black capped chickadees. However, we've had a pine grosbeak and a few gray jays come to our yard. We've also had quite a few of these:

it's a spruce grouse!

Hannah gets really excited when she sees the birds, especially the larger ones. The spruce grouse are fun to watch when they are walking through the snow from one tree in our yard to another. They sort of flounder a bit.

Here's another smattering of tracks under our deck. I believe the larger ones belong to a moose, of which we've had a few wander through our property, but I've yet to see one. Crazy, because their was one out there yesterday while I was home. Guess I need to look out my windows more. Other animal tracks and signs that we've seen while walking our driveway (it's somewhat long) are hare and some sort of small rodent. The rodent, probably a vole, left a small hole in the snow burm on the side of the road and you could see their tiny track go across and disappear. While wandering the road and our yard we've seen lots of interesting things, besides animal tracks, and expect to have all sorts of surprises come spring.

I'll leave you all with a shot of one of the things that originally drew me to this house, our wood cook stove.

lovely isn't it

The house has it's quirks, but it grows on us more each day.