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AT THE END OF A DIRT ROAD, TALKING ON THE RADIO. LIFE IS GOOD.
My tag-line on emails and the web site main page make mention of living at the end of a dirt road. Well, I really do - as shown below.
It is 1 mile to the nearest paved road. This is looking East after coming up a steep grade with two switch-backs before arriving on the ridge
of the mountaintop.
When at the end of the dirt road, the choices are limited - Turn around and go away or else pull into the parking area. And, in case you didn't notice, the end of the road is also in the middle of a forest.
Occasionally when visiting you may be greeted by the family goat - Nancy. Not much of a conversationalist, but she keeps the Copperheads and Rattlesnakes away from the house. Seriously.
And the occasional lost tourist too.
West of the house, through the trees you can see the workshop that my son Christopher and I built in 1992. It houses both a woodworking shop and my model train layout. On the far side of the shop is a 20KW stand-by generator. Being at the end of a dirt road, power outages are not uncommon nor are they always short in duration.
Below the house in an old logging road which is only fit for 4-wheel drive vehicles. This is a shot of the east and north side of the house with the decks. Antenna wires run everywhere. There are decks running around two sides (and a little more) of the house.
Great way to keep the grandkids under control - well, kind of anyway. This is the deck on the East side of the house, also shown in the picture
above. Looking back towards the East deck, this section goes in front of the "radio
room" and that part of the deck is covered. This is looking East from the
Main deck on the North side of the house. This is a view of the main deck on the North side of the house. In the
far corner is the "mini-tower" for the five band Yagi. Again - plenty of room for the grandchildren. In case the decks aren't big enough for the
kids then they can play in the fenced area off the decks that includes a tree
house built last year by my son.
When on the front deck, on the side away from the road, this is an easily ten mile view from the
North deck.
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