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« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2016, 11:36:24 AM »
Post pics anytime...

The sunset was so perfect, I made it my desktop wallpaper

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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2016, 02:50:50 PM »
Sunrise, my friend... pm your email and I'll easily top that one for you... that was just what I get looking down the hill... ;)

Ah... unless you meant the aurora shot, taken circa midnight...?
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« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2016, 06:02:31 PM »
That Aurora picture is incredible Kenny

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« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2016, 06:44:40 PM »
Awesome and congrats Kenny!  How's about few pics of your place?  What passes for a respectable shed in your "neighborhood" :)

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« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2016, 07:16:46 PM »
God bless ya, laddie!  I'm envious and happy for you.  I feel the same way about our home and the view out the back.  Hope you have decades of happiness there! 
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« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2016, 08:47:43 PM »
Awesome and congrats Kenny!  How's about few pics of your place?  What passes for a respectable shed in your "neighborhood" :)

IIRC this place has nice facilities for a workshop. We have to give him time to get settled in before we start bugging him about getting long-delayed projects done.

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« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2016, 08:01:28 AM »
Looks like a heavenly place. Enjoy!

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« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2016, 03:15:50 PM »
Buzz... existing shed is a bit of a wreck... presently has holes in the roof, a section of rotted timbers to the back... now a store for the critter fodder, and the critters that have moved in to hoover up the spillage... big risk as we have owls in the garden on a regular basis... i intend to get a new shed (not as a workshop this time) and turn this into a bird-watching hide...


... and as for the house itself... this might do for this years Christmas card... :mrgreen:


House in detail... the whole of the left side 1st is our daughters room and ensuite... to the right is ours and to the rear of ours is the third bedroom, with a roof access, floored, lined, and a velux window, ready for completion, above the double garage... roof space above 1st leaves us with a monstrous amount of storage space... downstairs is a huge kitchen, decking to rear of it, a lounge of equal size on each side of the front door, and another bedroom... to the rear is the double garage, which I intend to split, turning one part into a music room, and the other into a workshop with space for a car too, if required... it would be possible to park a tour-bus to the right of the house, and still get a car round to the garage... space for circa 10 to 15 cars on the gravel round the house... grounds are just shy of an acre... still trying to figure all the trees... definitely have a good plum tree (made jam and chutney from it last autumn)... theres the already mentioned pine trees, a huge willow tree, quite a few silver birch... I'll count all the trees and come back to you...
Another aurora shot, looking approx 90 degrees to the left of the other one and at the house... really odd red streak in the sky, but there it is... not visible with the naked etc...
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« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2016, 03:18:02 PM »
You should do Christmas card prints with that last one, Ken! Make you a wealthy man.
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« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2016, 03:28:16 PM »
Jackie's the card specialist... :mrgreen:

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« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2016, 06:32:00 PM »
Awesome place Kenny!  Sounds like it's four times the size of your last place.  Owls in the backyard?  Too cool though I'm guessing the owls turning your local nut eating rodent population into and all you can eat buffet might run counter to your goals! :o


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« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2016, 12:01:05 AM »
You spotted that then... yeah, garden might be a bit bigger too... :mrgreen:
Nah, the squirrels are safe (mostly) as the owls go for mice and voles...

An issue for the squirrels might be eagles, mind you, as a local specialist has advised me that we do get Golden and White Tail Eagle here, passing over too and from the central mountain areas... I have seen a golden eagle when passing through the central region (all single-track road) as you can't mistake those big "plank" wings... local eagle wing-span is 7' or 2m+ in new money... but they mostly go for rabbit, which we've got... biggest regular birds are pheasants and crows, though we have had a buzzard park itself on a fence post, and red-kite are common...
We do get a true killing-machine pass thru on a fairly regular basis, called a sparrow-hawk...
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« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2016, 05:10:31 AM »
Wow, what an awesome place.  You lucky dog!
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« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2016, 01:55:22 PM »
Woof...! :mrgreen:
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« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2016, 02:19:32 PM »
Jackie's the card specialist... :mrgreen:

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Such a lucky woman, equipped with a nutkrafty hubbie and all!
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