The Secret ....Check it out

First step in putting up the 17' tall Christmas Tree is to get it into our living room. You can see Cliff here with the tree stand that he has built.

Here is a close up look it is a standard large tree stand that he attached to a sheet of plywood that has turn buckles on the corners to help hold up the tree. The stand also has wheels so he can roll it around to decorate.

The stand goes on before the tree stands up sorry I have to help with that and so you don't get to see how I stand and hold the stand in place as Cliff goes to the top of the tree and start to walk it up into place so there isn't a photo of that.

Once it is up he then takes wire and wraps it around the tree into the buckles to help stabilize the tree.

Then once it is up he rolls it over to our loft and takes a ladder into to the loft to decorate the top from part from that location.

He is still on a ladder but now on the main floor and I'll help on the lower part of the tree.

For us it then gets rolled over to the Prow of our living room.

Here it is in all it's slender and I hope this helps you understand the "secret" to our tall tree.

Merry Christmas & Happy 2012 to all !!!!

Here comes Winter

One of the big questions we get is "how much does it costs to heat a log home" ? Or "what types of heating can you use?

Personally we have a number of heating elements in our home as we started with a heat pump unit that had air conditioning also added to it. Then number of years ago we added on a Wood Burning Fireplace ( the above photo shows it at Christmas time ). We also have a small Propane wood looking stove in our family room end of our home. You can see back in the right hand corner.

But back to the Questions ....you can heat them the same as any home. And yes the cost to upkeep the home is just like your standard will built and insulated homes.

Love to hear your comments & questions.....