Read these three posts together

The blog was being a pain. So I had to break all of the pics into 3 posts.

I ran down to the house again this morning just to see how the weather was down there and see it with fresh snow in the area. I was not diappointed. It was beautiful. Animal prints, large and small, all over the place. It's crazy the areas moose can walk through with their tall bodies and long articulating legs. I saw prints that looked like they emerged from nowhere, when in reality the moose just walked over and through trees and branches everywhere.

Here's a close-up detail of the upstairs logs of the house. You can see that they are tongue and groove to make a tight seal to keep out drafts. They even used a rubber spacer on the ends to ensure that no air could get through.

Looking from the front door, out through the back doors to the backyard. you can see the granite step area. The walls downstairs are 2-3 feet thick so every doorway and windowsill is 2 feet deep. The doors have granite tiles decorating them. The windows 1" tongue and groove.

Here's another shot off the front porch downstairs. There is a deck above this one that I haven't been able to get to yet. I imagine the extra height clears the trees and you can see the entire Alaska range running towards Denali some 150 miles distant. Can't wait to see it when it is clear.