Eaglewings
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Wow....I get why you wouldn't want to leave...it is so beautiful.!!! Look at that lake/snow...and dog!
Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning. We own 6 lots, all lake front, so no one will ever build close to us. We have constant wildlife and get to watch the eagles in a nearby nest.
I love it here SO much. There is nothing that could make us leave this house.
I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.
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The hot tub is just below the deck, cantilevered out over the hill. That's our dog, Czar, loving the snow.
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You have a beautiful home! Gorgeous!
Wow!!! Muddly, that is beautiful! The tranquility... Are you being a biotch showing it? I don't envy people that I am close to it now.Taken from our deck, various times of year. The entire back of our house is glass so this is the first thing we see every morning.
Thanks for sharing...it is great and the idea of preserving it by isolating it with adjacent properties is a fantastic move!
Nice "puppy!" I used to have one just like that. His name was Ringo...he died from snake bite.I love to travel but its true - there's no place like home.
Thanks very much. It truly is heaven on earth and there's never a day we're not grateful for it. We're on a peninsula so its lake from our front door and lake from the back too. Most of the houses are vacation homes and empty most of the year, as was our place until we retired. Its almost always quiet, as though there is no one else on the lake.
The house was originally a really crappy little 1 bedroom, 1 bath fishing shack but, after years of hard work, is now a big gorgeous home. We've sold our other properties - except for one rental and we have everything we want right here - our studios, books and the time and money to enjoy the time that's left to us.
There are minuses but nothing worth leaving. We have very spotty cell signal, can't stream videos and our internet signal comes and goes. If not for satellites, we wouldn't have anything but electricity!
Czar was a pound puppy. Shepherd/ collie mix and a really wonderful dog. He's not crazy about having two cat siblings and is getting grumpy in his old age. We both dread what we know is coming soon.
defcon4 Sorry to hear your dog was killed by a snake. When I lived outside Tucson, the rattlesnakes were always a concern. I used to have to move as many as 1-2 every single week and really watched our dogs. If you still live around venomous snakes, keep Benedryl on hand in case of another bite. Its not a cure, nothing like that, but it can buy you time to get him to the vet. But, if your vet doesn't have antivenin on hand, you could still be screwed.
I hope no one thinks I've shared these pics to be - uh, I don't know - uppity. If that were the case, I would have posted them a long time ago. Its a beautiful place and we do try to keep it wild and pristine. I wanted to share that.
Just tonight, watching TV and suddenly I see a possum at the back door. I like possums and rehabbed a few. They have the most amazing and vicious looking teeth but it turns out, if you're gentle with them, they can be handled without gloves. Some time, I'll dig out some old photos of a mother and babies I rehabbed. Even though I was handling her babies and moving them all, she was a sweetie, very docile.
You sound like a super smart businessman and are able to live in a awesome place because of your hard work..
Your lake house sounds so pretty and quiet, what a beautiful place to retire. And you built it the way that you want it.
My husband is a smart business man too, as well as his father who came over on a boat from Italy with nothing.
His father bought up some apartments, my husband bought a old victorian that we restored. and I found our house that we rebuilt , it was a 2 bedroom..now a 4 bedroom.
We live in Silicon Valley and our homes have 10x the price since we bought it, but the trade off is bad traffic, smog, and noise from the freeway since netflix tore everything down. Plus there is new rich here , major freaking plastic surgery snobs.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but my neighbor is getting $7000.00 + renting her home..
My husband and I have talked about renting and traveling but , I love the set up that we have here.
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