Our Snowy Cabin

I keep hearing on various blogs and on Instagram that spring is just around the corner, but at our little cabin in Idaho it's still snowing buckets full!

This was our cabin last December. It was our second December and we thought it was a fairly normal snow year. 

We weren't expecting much more snow than what you see in the street view of our property above. 

 We sure were wrong! This is the same street view from last weekend. I thought you might enjoy seeing what our little cabin looks like in a good snow year. We had no idea it snows this much in McCall - it was a complete surprise to us - but we sure are loving it!

We have our driveway plowed for us, but we have to shovel our way to the front door. 

We are so glad we had our leaky roof replaced in time for this amount of snow.

Our back door is down in a hole.

This is one of the Aspen trees we planted last fall. We're sure hoping they make it through their first winter. The snow drifted high enough on this north side of our cabin to bury the windows. 

This is the living room window from inside.

This is the kitchen window from inside.

My husband spent a day shoveling to the front door...

...and moved the mountain of snow away from the north side windows. 

This summer we'll look into getting storm windows or maybe even boarding up this side of the cabin for future winters.

This is another new little Aspen tree behind our cabin. The snow is so beautiful all around our property!

Our neighbor's tree fell under its heavy snow load onto the back part of our property. Luckily, it couldn't have chosen a better spot to fall and didn't cause any damage. Finding this made us so glad we had our own weak trees thinned out a couple of years ago. 

During big storms the city can't keep up with plowing all our side streets.

Which makes us thankful for our trail rated Jeep - it just laughs at deep snow!

We're also thankful at the end of the snowy day for our snug and warm little cabin. 

I guess we're a little different than most people since we're in no hurry for winter to end and spring to come. We're loving every moment of this beautiful Idaho snow!

Stay warm!

New Paint for our Cabin

Next month, October, 2018, it will be two years since we bought our little cabin in the woods, and our list of completed weekend projects is long:

 Scrubbed and painted the whole inside

New electrical box and wiring

Installed a bathroom fan

New bathroom mirror and cabinet

 Replaced light fixtures and added outlets

 Cut down dead trees and cleaned up our land

 Attic mold removal, new roof and new insulation

 Cleaned, sealed, and insulated the crawl space

Scraped, primed, and painted the exterior

Built a kitchen work cart with shelves

Planted new trees, shrubs, and flowers

and probably more I forgot.

Whew!

My husband and I had a lifelong dream of owning a mountain cabin one day. When we saw this little 76 year-old run-down and neglected cabin on a weekend trip to McCall two years ago, we decided to take a huge leap of faith and buy it. We were putting our faith in ourselves because we knew we had our work cut out for us to make it our dream come true. 

It has been SO much work, and it has been SO worth it!

Today, I finally get to share our new exterior paint! This cabin painting took us an entire year to complete, and it feels incredibly great to have it all done! 

I'll start with some "before" photos. (Lots and lots of photos!)

And now, the fun part, the "after" photos!

     

Each and every little detail is filled with love and makes us happy!

Our cabin is snug and warm and ready for fall and winter. We still have lots of projects we want to do, but relaxing and enjoying the fruits of our hard work over the past two years is what we're planning for now.

Thanks for stopping by today and celebrating our new red paint with us! If you'd like to see the inside of our little cabin, you can take a tour here.

  

I'm going to a party today! Come on along!

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