[ErnBatavia]

Perspective...the standard (In California anyhow) two car garage is 400 square feet.

We gave up on L.A. to move out to what had been our weekend place - small lot (50 by 130), but the back view, which is why the rear of the house is virtually all window, blasts into perpetually preserved open desert and mountains.....not one damned Manhattan Island taxi in sight!

(Check my profile page for a peek of our security system)

[Noumenon]

Very nice! Most blue-zoners can't handle the nature that they claim to worship. One of the more amusing features of northern Idaho is the number of 'for sale' places that pop up after the summer California move-ins get a load of our winters. I just finished a StarBand installation for an engineer type who's moving up from San Jose to a place he just built across the runway.

Eyeing the long roof line, I made a comment that he could look forward to a sizeable snow berm by the side of the house as the winter wore on. He announced that he would just use a snow blower to keep his windows clear. Ain't gonna happen.

There's a reason why we all own heavy equipment out here. Our 35 HP John Deere is just adequate for snow removal and management. Oh, well - he'll figure it out...

[lodwick]

Very cool - thanks for the invite.

Cheers.

[holdmuhbeer]

Looked at your profile page, very nice.