Our
First Home
Picture taken shortly after we moved in.
This log house was built in the 1930's by the original homesteaders bringing down logs from the mountains with a team of horses. They had used adobe to chink between the logs and I repaired those places where it had fallen out. They previous owners had done some remodeling before moving back east and I finished the work as no one had lived in the house for many years. There was A propane Warm Morning stove in the living room which heated the whole house when we first moved in. Later I added a Round Oak parlor stove in the kitchen and burned wood which I brought home from the sawmill where I worked. Cynde went with a neighbor up to the coal mines and brought back a pickup load of lump coal and a couple of nice big lumps of coal burned all night long by regulating the damper just right. This helped us from spending money on propane. Downstairs was a living room in the front and kitchen and bedroom in back and upstairs was a bedroom and bathroom.
We had a telephone but the line was shared with four neighbors. We could tell which of us it was for by a distinctive ring.
