Fun Monday!

Todays Fun Monday is hosted by Pamela at The Dust Will Wait here was her challenge for this week!

As the host of today's Fun Monday I got to choose the topic. I said: I want to see what you see on any given morning this week; from somewhere very near where you live. Front porch, back porch, down the street, around the corner. Just makes sure it's your neighborhood. Post a photo that will send me to the travel agent to book a weekend at your local Bed & Breakfast.

I was excited about this weeks challenge cause those of you who already read my blog know how much I like to share pictures of our new home in Ketchikan Alaska! I had shared so many pictures though I wanted to take some different shots of our new home in the woods. Of course it won't be one photo, nope I've got several!


We will start by walking out the front door this is the first thing you see from that door. Yes stairs and lots of them. Its really not so bad though it is definetly helping me with working on losing some excess weight. I definetly get my excercize walking up and down those stairs.


The weather is getting colder quick right now lets zoom into the thermometer up there in the left upper corner shall we?

That would be 42 degrees Farenheit. That was todays high temp . It's just the beginning of October and its getting chilly!

Okay now that we've gotten past the temp of the day and the flight of stairs we can take a break if that was to tiring and have a seat at the top.....hehe I think it's funny we don't ever actually sit there but we do drop things off there to take back down the stairs.


Okay have you had your break from the stairs? Okay now we have the trail to the driveway/garage anyway where we keep the cars. Yes folks its a trail. Do you see why I'm actually starting to lose weight here? It's a beautiful walk although I do not go anywhere at night by myself because I'm afraid of bears people!

If you feel a little hungry on the way why not stop for some red huckleberries? Ask Kenzie she loves them but they don't last long with her around so if you want any you better pick them when you see them! Even though there are tons of them around in our woods.

When you get past the huckleberries and to the driveway this is what you see across the street.

Now look to your left.....

Now to your right....

Umm do you see the cage thing at the bottom of the picture above?

Here's a closer look...

That would be where we are supposed to put out garbage for pick up. It closes up tight so the bears can't get into our garbage. We don't use it though we take all our garbage up to the dumpster at Kellys work like the other 4 people who work there do. Less likely to atract bears that way!

Okay now I'll take you back to the house here are the woods "in front" of our house. You see they can be a little creepy at night, when its dark, and you can't see.....

Lets go around to the other side of the house and I'll show you where we get our water. You see we live in a rainforest so.....it rains alot. We don't have water service out here so most houses instead of having a well we have these big containers that catch the water off of our roof from the rain. The water goes through one filter for regular things like washing clothes, showering, dishes, etc.... and 2 filters for our drinking water. It's actually really good and tastes better then most bottled water you can find. Not a bit of chemical tastes or that nasty chlorine taste the water in Portland had.

More of the woods around our house this is kind of to the side also.

And my favorite view from my house of all is this. This is out my back door. It is the Narrows here in Southeast Alaska. Basically it's the ocean but there are a lot of islands around here including our own and they call the ocean that flows between them all "The Narrows". Well because it is narrow, basically.... Isn't it beautiful? I find it very calming.


Here is a video from the backyard. Sorry it's a bit shaky not sure why but sometimes I get like that.


Untitled from my4kidsdunn on Vimeo.