Christmas Now and Then

As far as we’re concerned, it’s Christmas time! Starting the day after Thanksgiving and lasting until Twelfth Night on January 6th, the “homestead” is in Christmas mode.

Christmas 2013 (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger)

Christmas 2013 (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger)

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Our Tenth “First View”

Today we mark an important family holiday, First View, the anniversary of the day we first saw the “homestead.” In fact, today marks the 10th anniversary of that happy day when, almost on a lark, we changed the course of our lives forever.

Ten years later, the first view is still much the same, even to the amount of snow (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

Ten years later, the first view is still much the same, even the amount of snow (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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