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I realize my last photo didn't really show much, but I'm back to give you another peek. Again I've chosen to show you my flowers. This one is a hanging basket. If you look closely, you can see the firewood in the background (which is how we heat our house) and the fact that the house is a log house. This type of construction used to be very popular in the western regions of North America. People cleared the land and used the logs to make their houses. This particular house was built later in the 1970's, but even then people in western Canada used this method. It's not a very efficient use of materials if you ask me. There are so many other building methods that use fewer trees and readily available supplies, but this is part of the history of this area. As the person who is responsible for keeping things clean at home, I can also report that keeping a log building clean is a ridiculous chore. You have to imagine the way the curve of the logs inside the house becomes a magnet for dust. Anyway, I won't go on with my cleaning woes. So the original small house was added onto by a previous owner and that is the part that you saw in my last post. It uses post and beam construction. When we purchased it, it was unfinished. Still is.