The above photo is the drive leading to Meg's house. You turn right off the gravel road onto it. On the left of the picture, notice their vegetable patch, in which they grow their own cabbage, corn, squash and various other nice tasting stuff!!
Above, my first unsucessful picture of her house, blocked by the tree!! You can see the garage on the left, and their picnic table, which I thought was neat!!
A better picture of the garage and one of their many storage sheds!!
A better picture of the house. It's actually three stories, but when Meg's Dad Jim first started building the house, it only had one storey at first!! they just kept building and adding to the house as the years went by!! I would presume in some ways, that's the advantage of building a house in wood and not with bricks, though of course a fire would be devastating, as the whole thing would burn down...If you click on the picture to expand it, you will see the decking at the front of the house that they recently had built, literally in the last few months, and which is fabulous for sitting out on in the sun to read.
it's SO weird to have you blog about being here. it's totally weird. :o anyway, the house is really only 2 stories--there is an attic but it doesn't really count i don't think cuz it's not livable. your pictures came out amazingly well. i think the grass is greener in your pictures than in real life. ;)
ReplyDeleteHey hobs , well your time there sounds great , i can imagine they likin the accent , you walk in to the grocery store and are like "eh eh can i ave a bottle of milk and some bread please boss!!!", lol, and is there really a lake placid there (dont get to close to it if there is ), margo is beautiful and u one lucky kid !!hehe , and her house is massive and lovely to, it must be so hard for you both being so far now as you have bonded so well , and enough of the landscape we wanna know about the meet and that "KISS" LOL ...and btw , you still aint commented on my blog ya wee wick lol :) gbu
ReplyDeleterofl yeah we do wanna hear more about your time together.
ReplyDeletebut WOW Meg that house is amazing and your Dad must have an amazing sense of acheivement having built his own family home!
Very few here have ever experienced that.
i'm going to blog a bit more about our 2 weeks but first i want to upload some of the pictures of us together that my dad took on his camera. they are quite nice if i do say so!!
ReplyDeletelilmiss it's only been almost 2 days since he left and yes it is hard. lol but it's okay. God's got everything in hand and I trust him completely, and i know everything's going to be fine. :)
kazz yeah i guess the house must be a big thing for my dad. i never thought really hard about it because it wasn't strange to me that my dad built our house. i grew up in it, how would it be strange or unusual? but i guess it is!! peolpe alawys comment that it's beautiful or really big. it doesn't seem big to me but that's because there are so many of us and we all have a lot of stuff. my dad wants to retire and live in west viriginia in 6 years or so which is really weird to me ... he's not so emotionally attached to the house as probably the rest of us are. but then, maybe he just thinks he isn't?! ;) mostly he says he hates the long winters in maine.
anyway what am i doing hijacking this blog. i promise to blog about my hobbit/elf adventure more soon. i'm going to try to upload the pics my dad took tonight.
Stalk, stalk, stalk ... (insert evil laugh here).
ReplyDeletejk ;D
to be honest it wouldn't be hard to stalk me, but it also wouldn't be worth your consequently being murdered in your sleep by jm. :p unless of course that's your life's goal.
ReplyDeleteI hope she introduced you to Merry and Pippin while you were there.
ReplyDeleteShame on you Margo if you didn't !!!