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By Mark Zeiger, December 4, 2015

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the day Aly, Michelle and I first toured the property that would become our homestead. “First View” is now one of the high holidays in our little family, an important marker day in our Christmas season (see First View: A Homestead Made Holiday).

I edited the paragraph above to say we “toured” the property rather than “saw,” as I originally composed it. I did this because, technically, we’d seen the property once before.

Who lives here? The Homestead as seen from the ferry last June (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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By Mark Zeiger, December 4, 2014

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 the amount of snow (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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