Dark snowy evening

Plywood and felt are on the garage roof 

This is the dog run which connects the garage and house.  This is the side on the back of the house.

Temporary stairs

View looking south toward school

Lots of progress...and snow!

All of the logs are now up.

Garage

Kitchen on the left, bathrooms and closet in the middle, our bedroom on the right

Basement steps under here

More garage work

Garage gets underway

Our first view of the garage.  You can see the door going into the kitchen through the dog run (aka, breezeway.)  Still waiting on the top five feet of logs.  They are supposed to be finished up with them this week.

The cement truck is right at the edge of the hill leading down to the meadow.   

This is a bedroom window.  You can also see the foundations for the porch out front.

These are the foundation posts for the deck.

We have never seen the larch trees in the fall.  Love the gold and the sun shining on the mountains.

The biggest opening is for the french doors leading from the kitchen/dining room to the deck.

More Reset Pictures

These pictures were taken by the log home builder's wife, our new friend Becky.  This is her husband Joe working on top of the logs.

Love this picture of the truck pulling into our drive.

What a view!  Can't imagine ever getting tired of seeing this.  So glad we are having BIG windows.

And the Walls Go Up

The logs are home--on our home site, that is. Yippee. We've been waiting and waiting for this day. I was surprised how quickly they were able to reset the logs.  Rollie called tonight and said they were up around 7 feet.

Always a beautiful day in Montana.  Neighbor Harry called tonight, too, to tell us they had walked over to see what was happening.  Said they saw a lot happening "up on the hill" today.  Ha!  We love how he keeps us up-to-date.

The Walls Go Down

Yes, down.  All of these pictures are taken at the log home builder's site.  The logs are being taken down, numbered and loaded onto the truck to be trucked to our home site.  It's only one-quarter mile down the road from here.  It's been fun to work with local people.  We feel like we have quite a few friends already!

They leave the last layer of logs here to continue building up the last few feet.