On a lighter note, we recently celebrated Gideon's first deer, a button buck, killed with one perfectly placed shot. A quick kill, and hopefully the beginning of a love for hunting and for the outdoors. As his Dad and the "Hunter", I couldn't be prouder.
Well, just when I thought I was busy, we've done it again. We bought the farm! Here are a couple of "before" shots. I think there is a lot of potential here that we'll discover through the next couple of years.
You may ask "How old is the house?", well that is a good question. I'll call it an 1840's bungalow, rebuilt several times, with a touch of Craftsman styling. Now really the Bungalow style dates only to the 1920's, so I think that what we've got here is a classic New England home. Dating to no particular time, but before anyone can remember, and with hints of several styles. There was a house near here in 1854, but the current structure looks like a later reconstruction effort. It appears that the Attorney that owned it in the mid 1970's did some big changes, but there have been none since 1978. Before we rip too much, we're trying to study the whole house including talking to owners that lived here in the 1960's. We intend to restore this great old house to make it more energy efficient and to add some modern conveniences.
What you really can't see from the pictures is the land on which the house sits. At around 25 Acres, more or less, as the deed states, I think that by cutting a field to the west of the house we'll get a view of Maine's western foothills and beyond. That will have to wait for now.
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