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December 11, 2017
Fall Fun and Festivities
This blog starts out with the above picture of what our new home looked like early this week. However, our continuing story begins mid October to bring you up to date on what has been going on around here since our last blog. The weather made a quick turn in late October from mild Indian Summer to cold and blustery winter! Having been raised in Texas, I am familiar with sudden weather turns but Montana can hold her own with Texas! Since writing the last blog we have had extremes from very warm sunny days to close to blizzard days. The early snow storm we had around Halloween stuck around for a few weeks and delayed our home construction a bit. However the snow went away and we have not seen any more until today as I write this, and it is just a small dusting with some very needed sunshine. The forecast calls for much more snow this coming weekend.
Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to lately.
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| Beautiful Autumn scene from our back deck at our present house in Kalispell. |
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| We never get tired of how beautiful the drive is from our new home to Bigfork along the north end of the Flathead Lake. |
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| This could be a nice fishing hole on the Swan River south of Bigfork. I took this photo during one of our frequent local road trips about mid October. |
Our church family friends, Phil and Ruby, sponsor an apple cider press party for charity each year. It is a lot of fun and a lot of hard work but well worth it plus we all share in the fresh apple cider.
Helen is 92 years old and none of us can keep up with her! She is our inspiration!
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Everyone takes a turn on the apple press and quickly work up a sweat! We do it the old fashioned way!
House construction pictures.
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| This is how the house looked from the front about the middle of October. Not much going on. |
Do you see anything different in this picture and the next picture?
Notice the cupola on top of the rv shelter. You will see what is going on top of it in the next picture.
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| Please excuse my pj's! This is my birthday present from Cathryn......a copper weathervain for the new cupola. Beautiful! Why a pheasant instead of a rooster you ask? Because we are building in an area south of Kalispell in the Lower Valley called Pheasant Haven on Pheasant Tail Court! |
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| This is going to make our new home very special! |
Winter came early to the Flathead!
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| Our early snowstorm the end of October. |
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| Annie loves the snow! |
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| This is what the roads looked like driving out to our house on my birthday! |
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| Birthday breakfast at the Somer's Cafe with my beautiful lady was worth the drive! |
And this is where we are as of Monday, December 11th.
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| The door on the right is 12 feet high to allow clearance for our future smaller RV. |
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| Windows and siding are starting to be installed. |
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| The sliders for the back were delayed but should be installed along with the upper windows in a few weeks. We really like the way our builder pieced all the beams together without using metal straps. It all fits just like puzzle pieces! |
John and Cathryn
