Thanksgiving 2008

We decided (at the last minute) to go to Utah for Thanksgiving. We knew it would be our tenth wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving, but we wanted to be with family rather than in a hotel with strangers. We called Scott and Evelyn on the Monday night before Thanksgiving to see if we could come up for a visit. Debi only had to work Monday and Tuesday and didn't have choir practice on Wednesday, and Gary cancelled his Wednesday night class, so we left as soon as Debi got home on Tuesday afternoon. We stayed at Scott, Evelyn, and Nicole's house in Riverton. We were excited to stay in their guest bedroom because it is decorated like a log cabin. There is the deer head, that Scott shot last deer season, hanging on the wall to the left of the window. (Sorry, I didn't post that picture!) The lamps have a silhouette of a moose on them. There are several pictures of deer on the wall, too. So, we celebrated our tenth anniversary in a log cabin-style room! Staying in this bedroom only made us more anxious to have our log home finished!

Lorelai loved the Hodges' cat, "Cinder". This picture shows "Lolly" looking under the bed for the cat. We enjoyed watching Lorelai walking all around the house. She entertained us with her cell phone antics, too.

Four of the cousins were able to visit the day after Thanksgiving. This picture shows Luke and Megan next to Nicole and Lorelai sitting on Scott and Evelyn's bed.

After much protest, I convinced my sisters and brother to pose for a picture. This shows (left to right) Evelyn, Debi, Tom, and Denise--four of the six Greenwood kids.

Windows Are In!

There has been progress this week and most walls are now seven courses high. The finished walls will be seventeen courses, which translates to nine feet high. This first picture shows the windows in the living room. They are painted "Hunter Green" on the exterior and are "wood clad" on the interior. We plan to make the roof shingles green also. We originally wanted a traditional metal roof, but due to the cost we decided to go with standard composite shingles. The windows are installed as the log walls go up utilizing the "smart jamb" made by Middleton Timber, our log home manufacturer. It's starting to look like a real log home now!

This picture shows a view of the entire home. The garage walls are about fourteen courses high in this photo. You can see the east-facing garage wall in this picture. George and Charlie Kayser are working with Gary to install the windows and logs.

Five Courses of Logs Are Now Up!

It's been a couple of weeks since we could add some pictures to show the progress on our log home. Gary had a week of Jury Duty, then the weather turned rainy the following week, and that shut down the work. This week, there were just two days that Gary and Carl could work on the log cabin due to prior commitments. Here are four more pictures of the log cabin--our future home! This first picture is of the northern wall of the great room/living room. (Right side of picture is facing north and the wall facing you looks east.)

In this picture, Debi is standing in the space where the future French doors will be in the master bedroom. She is facing west toward the big pine trees in the backyard. We positioned the French doors and windows of the great room to take advantage of the wonderful view of the trees in the backyard.

This picture shows the northeastern corner of the garage wall. We are really enjoying the look of the knots in the logs. We had purposely requested as many knots as possible--we like the character that knots give a log cabin.

This picture shows Debi standing in the space where the front door will be. The front entry will have rock around it, but we still haven't found the "perfect" front door. We've looked and looked, and the one that we like the best is WAY out of our price range. We may just put in something really simple (and inexpensive) at first, and then save up for the front door. We can't wait to open the front door and see you standing there!