Snakes Help!!

April first,
Time, it sure has a way of speeding by. I had thought we would be deep into our building by now and we have not even started. I think we are close but wouldn't bet on it at this point. It's a good thing I have a husband who is so slow. It drives me nuts of course, but like it or not he seems to be right about how long this is taking and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry yet so.......... he is much more use to the process of time than I am.
Our location is a good one, there are one or two drawbacks but for the most part its a beautiful site.One of the drawbacks is that there is a freeway that runs by it and all that, that entails. Another thing is that there seem to be a lot of rattle snakes on the hill. I am scared for my boy mostly, but for all of us and the littlest ones more, only because my boy seems to have a thing about snakes. I worry that it is a premonition as that runs strong in my family. I also worry as we will be using quite a lot of stone out side and I know from when I was a kid that the snakes like to get in that warm stone. Hey does anybody know what i could do about this?? What about anti venom kits?How about shock guns? What about animals or birds that will get the snakes. Plants they don't like? Noise, well I get that. But hey do you know anything that might help? I still have not gotten a comment and I am not sure if I ever will because I am not sure if I am doing this right but working on it, also any help in that area, including my content or the writing itself would be vastly appreciated. Thanks my friends for the moment I am off

To wolf or not to wolf

Today is my oldest foster daughters, 27th birthday so we are off to do a day for her, she is quite the gal. My Andy is down stairs working on a major bid for a big mine. My log home guy e-mailed me and is going to send me a stained piece of log so I can have the color of the log to work off of for my color pallet that I am trying to put together. I started a scrap book last night to have some thing I can take to town to work from and show people what the place looks like and what I am thinking about in the way of colors and floors etc. I am so excited it's hard to have patience and set back and wait for things to happen, but it is so cool right now. I have to say this is the happiest I have ever been in my life. I think mainly because things are generally so good but also because I am creating on a daily basis. So for now I am hoping the world is out there and wanting them to be interested in my life....
For now I need to get ready because I've a hour drive betwix me and town, or is that town and I??? heh heh
I am wondering about cultured stone, are there better ones than others, as far as quality of stone? Also dear readers I need to know if I were to splurge and go with a wolf cook top in my kitchen, is that a good idea. Has anyone had one they loved or hated. My mother was a cook, a real cook! She passed away three years ago and I want this kitchen for her so much that I have to question every thing I do, if that makes any sense.
for now I miss you already but I am off...

spring in montana

I have spent the last three years off and on working on designing a house for us to build. Us being, my husband Andy kids, Tucker and Gracie, grampa, Newfie the dog, Seeley and Coffee the cats, couple of fish and stray relatives depending on which given day we're talking about.
This home has evolved over the coarse of time through trial and error, changing likes and dislikes, life itself getting in the way and you name it, its happened.
I kept making it to big or too elaborate to afford. I kept not wanting a million dollar home, even if I could , I wouldn't want that, it seems obscene to me to spend that kind of money on a house.So over the course of time I relaxed my idea of what I had to have, left out corners and made it smaller, as I wrapped my mind around the new ideas they became my own and I Incorporated them into the home.
Then My husband started wondering about size, he said " I don't know what two thousand square feet feels like, I don't know what four thousand square feet feels like." So I called a real estate woman and asked her to show us some houses in that size. We set up a couple days of looking with her and went out and looked. What we found surprised us both. We looked at all kinds of house's but one of the houses we looked at was a log home.
Now up until that point we had been absolutely against log homes, nothing about them appealed to us, and the maintenance of one gave us nightmares. The home we looked at had been built with out any thought of flow or floor plan at all, it was strange. But on the way home a couple of days later I kept going over it all in my mind and finally I asked Andy "Of all those houses which place did you like the best" Andy never one to put himself on the spot said "Gee honey I don't know which one did you like the best?" I told him I liked the log home the best, I said it felt like walking into home after being gone a long time. Andy was immediately excited and said " I know, I know I felt exactly the same way, It was home!" And so began one of the most satisfying times of my life, the journey of our log home.