Our House -- BEFORE the "Renovations"

April, 2001 We have a few warm days and things really start to look like spring.  We do have a rather late spring blizzard, though, and the snow (all 5-10 inches of it) melts the next day.  Here are some shots taken before I leave work in the morning... followed by when I arrive home that night... and a beautiful sunrise over the hills behind us:

     

There were also a few deer to greet me one morning:

  

March, 2001 The family comes down for a week, and we get snowed in...(we are all living in the basement office, the room underneath the basketball hoop).  One day and nearly 2 ft of snow.

   

The next day is bright and sunny, and a lot of it melts away...

   

December, 2000 The purchase closes on December 15; it's starting to snow.  We're told it won't stop until next August some time.   They're just kidding...aren't they?

   

 

November, 2000 Well, we are looking for a new house, and Pattie goes through this one and we like.  Don (our architect) says he can make it our dream home, so we're sold.  These are some shots of the house before we bought it (so, while the furniture's nice, it's not ours, and the interior decorating is not exactly our taste -- too dark):