The Gingerbread House (the outside)

Here is the sweet little Gingerbread House!!

The door on the left leads into the church office, that was a new addition built on about 8 years ago. The two smaller windows are in the living room, the window above the flower box is the kitchen and the largest of the windows is the living room. The door on the very right side leads into the mud room off of the living room.

Just another view of the outside...

It's a little late in the season to plant anything, but John wanted me to be able to see some flowers from the kitchen window, so he put in some chrysanthemums. Isn't he sweet?

This is the view of the front yard looking out of the office door. The garage that we can't really use right now because of all the boxes we have in there. That patch of weeds on the right is actually the garden (YIKES!). We haven't done anything with it since we moved in, BUT it was mostly strawberries and asparagus (which were done when we got here), so we didn't really waste any harvest. We do have to get in there though and cut everything down for next year.

John and Ben are walking down the hill that leads to the lower level of the yard...

This is the lower level. Just a quiet space surrounded by a lot of trees and the sound of running water from the little stream....

Part of the stream that runs through the yard...

Another view...

Way, way in the back of the property is this little patch of woods where the deer all come to dance...

I'll post more photos of the back yard and rear views of the house later. I wanted to wait until the horses were out.