It seemed like the snow never stopped falling last winter. Zach couldn't even find one of this trucks as see you can see in this photo.
After we had the windows in and the deck started I could see the trees needed some limbs cut off to open up the view. We wanted to see the lake, but wanted to keep the limbs low enough so that we wouldn't see the couple of homes across the lake that otherwise would be visible if we limbed too high. The property on Swan lake is covered under a conveyance that no longer allows trees within 50’ of the lake from being cut down, not that we would have cut then down anyway.
It was sure great when we had all the windows in!
I had hired Charlie Thompson a carpenter from Wassila to work for me at Sheldon Jackson College and he also was helping us on weekends at the house. In this photo he had just parked his truck and heads into work on the sheetrock as it snows yet again. (The story of Charlie is also a sad one. He was not only a great carpenter but he was becoming a good friend. At 40 years old he had a massive heart attack and passed away the day after Easter in 2007. I wish I had some better photos of him!)
We decided to add an eyebrow awning over the south side of the house. It’s something we should have had Pan Abode design into the plans but we didn’t seen how important to was until the house was up and sheeted. Anyway it was easy to add it and I think you can see from all the bolts, strapping and nail plates that we didn’t want it to fall off the house. The photo below shows what the eyebrow looks like when it was completed. 
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