Let's Be Neighborly-----Show us your front door. OK Me First

Not everyone has a waterfall gracing their front door :D. I'm marveling at how you all take meticulous care of your front doors. Time for me to clean the gutters but it's Fall...soon it will be full again. "And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on...ladi-dadi-dee, ladi-dadi-doh"
The joys of home ownership :rain:
 

Lara said:
Not everyone has a waterfall gracing their front door :D. I'm marveling at how you all take meticulous care of your front doors. Time for me to clean the gutters but it's Fall...soon it will be full again. "And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on...ladi-dadi-dee, ladi-dadi-doh"
The joys of home ownership :rain:
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You could always just tell people that you live in Falling Water II by Frank Lloyd Wright. :)
 
In winter up in Alaska my front door is hidden behind that blue tarp. I enclosed a small (arctic entryway) and close it off with a tarp, after all at 30-40 below one has to buffer the cold from your real front door. Second photo is inside the entry with my two 'refrigerators' the two blue ice chests.
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Pete, your door reminds me of when I lived near Eagle Lake (Calif) for a while. I remember temperatures of "only" about 10 or 12 below, though, except we did have a cold snap that dropped overnight temps to 23 below (if I remember right), and huge swatches of the lake froze over. Fortunately, I had chopped plenty of wood and kindling, and the propane supply tank (outdoors) was working fine. Can't say the same for my car. All you could do on those days is hunker down and eat good...after shoveling off the roof and hauling in wood, etc, of course.
 
Luckily for me being so far from town, 65 miles one way, my truck never failed and started at temp's down to -24, but usually when it was -20 or so I started my generator and plugged the truck in to warm it up for about half and hour. After a decade of living there I became quite proficient at 'hunkering down' having a coffee and watching the snow fall out the cabin window.
 
Pete said:
Luckily for me being so far from town, 65 miles one way, my truck never failed and started at temp's down to -24, but usually when it was -20 or so I started my generator and plugged the truck in to warm it up for about half and hour. After a decade of living there I became quite proficient at 'hunkering down' having a coffee and watching the snow fall out the cabin window.
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My luck was having helpful neighbors. There were only three who lived there year-round, and we were spread out over only about 2 acres. They taught me what to do when temps were expected to dip that low, and a lot of other stuff, too.
 
Pete said:
In winter up in Alaska my front door is hidden behind that blue tarp. I enclosed a small (arctic entryway) and close it off with a tarp, after all at 30-40 below one has to buffer the cold from your real front door. Second photo is inside the entry with my two 'refrigerators' the two blue ice chests.
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Very cool. Garfield is an excellent touch. Lulz. If I may ask, how large is your cabin?
 
16x24 with the interior open to a loft. The photograph is of shows most of the first floor except where the kitchen and heater are located.

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I don't know if I could call it gorgeous but I did call it home for 14 years and with it 65 miles away from the nearest store or phone I had everything I needed right there.
 
Phil that's a good description, I did have everything I needed being so far, (65 miles one way), from the nearest civilization. Even my kitchen area was 'man cave' friendly with it ultra modern 'Coleman' stove that I used for 14 years ((actually that's my second one)) and my up to date water system, (5 gal water jugs).

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...and in the loft where I slept across from my bed was the 'bridge' of my starship where I spent most of my time writing for my blog, editing Alaskan DVD's and talking on my ham radio's.

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Severe snow storm winter of 2015-2016 and was trapped in my cabin for two weeks because of physical limitations. Moved to Texas in the spring of 2016 for more extensive medical care but hate it. Yes there is the grand-kids and my son but the heat and crush of civilization has me moving back home after this lease expires spring of 2018.
 
Pete said:
Severe snow storm winter of 2015-2016 and was trapped in my cabin for two weeks because of physical limitations. Moved to Texas in the spring of 2016 for more extensive medical care but hate it. Yes there is the grand-kids and my son but the heat and crush of civilization has me moving back home after this lease expires spring of 2018.
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I imagine it will be a great relief for you to return to the Alaska you love. Will you be returning to your cabin?
 
No for some reason after 20 years and over thelast fewon the homestead we grew to the point that we never even talked so I am looking for a new "cabin in the woods".
 

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