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fuhgettaboutit asked for pics of the house where we're living. We've been told it's one of the oldest in our little village, originally built in the early 1800s.



You can see the classic lines from outside, but there's little to show the age; it's been thoroughly renovated.



The kitchen's a dream, nicer than the one I left, other than a cranky old microwave.



The hardwood floors in two rooms are the only signs of age upstairs. They are pegged, not nailed; the boards vary in width, and some of them are single planks 15 inches wide! (This will be the kidlet's room.)



Step into the basement and you finally see how old the place is-- stone and timber foundation! It doesn't extend under the entire house; the house was built in at least two sections, though not in the obvious way. (Far as I can tell, the original house was only as wide as the back portion, but extended all the way to the current front door. At some point someone took down all but the back portion and built the newer front section at right angles to the original.)



At this point I'm taking pics of every bird I can, since I don't know what the common birds are here. I snapped this thinking it was one of a little flock of juncoes, but it's not... eastern phoebe, maybe?