life in an a-frame, part one

So I think I’ll write a bit about Zach and I’s new home. As I mentioned in another post, it’s an A-frame. Which is just plain awesome, in my not so humble opinion. I have a few photos that I managed to upload. Eventually I’ll have more photos, but my hard drive is full at the moment and I can’t save and edit any of my photos at the moment. A few friends have stated interest in seeing more photos of our A-frame and the area around our new home.

I’ve already posted a few photos of the exterior, and I’ll post a few more today. I don’t have any decent photos of the interior yet, since unfortunately the place is still littered with boxes!

Some of these photos were taken before the Spring leaves started sprouting, but now the woods are starting to turn a nice shade of Spring Green.

This is the view from our kitchen window:

You can see that there are a few deer in the yard. The photo is a little dark since it was taken just as the sun was rising. The deer hang out in the front and side yard too. I haven’t seen them in the front yard, but Zach watched them one morning before I had woken up.

Here is one side of the house. There is an similar extension on the other side, but without a porch and entrance.

Here is a closer up view of the front, with a good shot of the balcony:

There is a sliding glass door that leads onto the balcony. The room that is behind the door is the loft, which you can see down to the living room on either side. It’s pretty neat. We were going to turn that into our bedroom, but our furniture doesn’t fit properly in there because of the half walls of the loft. Of course, our furniture doesn’t all fit in the bedroom either, since we have a queen size four poster bed, a long short dresser and a tall dresser. We’re going to go with a full size bed for our next set. The rooms are definitely smaller in this house than in our old house, but we’re perfectly okay with that. We didn’t use a good chunk of our old house, and wanted a smaller house this time around. Of course, we do miss having a basement and the garage space. We’re going to build a shed to accommodate our bikes, and that will free up the third bedroom in our new house. Back to the above photo- the window at the top is the attic window. The attic is quite large, since it runs the entirely length of the house and is tall enough to stand in comfortably. Right now, we’re using it for storage and also my knitting/sewing/art studio for the time being. Not that I’ve found any time to knit/sew/draw/paint.

Here’s a picture of the back of the house. This one was taken last week, and as you can tell, Spring has finally sprung. Some of the leaves are coming in, and the dogwood trees are starting to flower. Now the dogwoods are in full bloom. I hope the weather turns sunny in the next few days so I can take some decent pictures of them.

I realized the other day that our shed sort of looks like an outhouse. There are a few outhouses on some of the roads that we have been riding on. I’ll have to get a few pictures of those!

We have a lot of wildlife here, but not a lot of small wildlife. We’re trying to figure out what big animals live in the woods. We’re pretty sure we’ve heard some kind of wild dogs in the woods, but they weren’t howling so I’m not sure if they were coyotes. They could have been foxes. I think there are probably bobcats. Not everything in the woods is big though, we just know we don’t see many squirrels and haven’t seen a single rabbit yet. I heard a common nighthawk last night, I think. And two nights ago I watched as bats swooped through the air chasing bugs. I’m sure I mentioned this in another post, but it really is peaceful here.