This article and these photos are originally posted September 1st, 2004 or so. The date stamp on this article has changed from server moves and edits made later.

Finally, after all these years, and so many moves, we're at last settling in.

Before marriage, I moved over 30-40 times from when I moved out of my mothers home at 18, until marriage at 25. At one point I moved 21 times in a little over 2 years. Boy my furniture took a beating. :(
And since marriage, we've moved 8 times in 9 years of marriage. We plan to stay here for at least 5-10 years, if not forever. ;)



  The wonderful view from the living room/deck.

It's hard to really appreciate how great this view is with this cheesy old 1998 Sony Mavica Digital camera, but it'll give you a little idea of what a great view we have from up here on the edge of the plateau facing the hills and mountains to the north, all covered with so many trees, most of which are evergreens, so it's beautiful year round. ;)

The deck has two parts, long and skinny north part, and wide 16' wide, by 32' long east covered deck. The north deck is about 4.5' wide and 72' long! This shot is from the East side of the north deck. facing northwest.

This is from the north deck looking at the back yard to the northwest side of the yard.

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This is also from the north deck, taking a shot of the middle of the yard. It's two tiers. The first upper tier is lawn, the slope and second tier are covered with plants, bushes, trees and fruit trees. We have 2 types of apple trees, 2 types of cherry trees, a plum tree, raspberry and blackberry bushes, horseradish, chives and garlic-chives, tulips, oregon grapes, wild roses, yellow showers roses, poppies, and many others I still haven't quite identified already planted and thriving.You'll see the top of a japanese style stairway going down to the lower tier. I plan to create a waterfall on the slope, and build a Zen rock garden, and a Shinto (japanese style) garden complete with pond and little arcing wooden bridge over teh stream. ;)


This is the back of the house viewed from the west side of the upper backyard, facing west to the houses north (back) side).

This is the front of the house (40 years old maple and blue spruce kind of hide it well) from the street, this is the west side of the house.


This is the east side of the house, with drake on the street playing in his truck. We're on a dead end cul-de-sac, so very little traffic, and a number of kids from 3 years old to 13 years old for the boys to play with.