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Here is the charming exterior. The portion of the house closest to the viewer is the living room. Note the beautiful green standing seam roof. There is a nice holly bush underneath the snow pile on the right of the porch (all mine died). Just beyond the frame on the right is the wood-fired hot tub.

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Outside views. The one on the left is from the driveway. The most visible portion is the living room. The picture below is from our backyard. Notice all the lovely little sheds. There isn't always snow. Excellent wildlife habitat.

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This is the dining room. The kitchen is off to the right, the living room is kind of behind and to the left. The dark door goes to the bedroom, which is, admittedly, quite small. But it is well insulated now. The window next to the (new) stove looks out across the vegetable garden and to our lilac bushes.

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This is the living room that you walk into off the deck. It has this lovely new stove, and a view into the dining room. The weird little window (with the sunflower thing hanging in it) just faces an exterior wall on the other side of the chimney. This is presumably the result of the modular construction style (e.g. the dining room predates the living room.)

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The kitchen. The door to the bathroom is on the left, opposite the stove. The fridge is new, we helped Joyce put it together. The window beyond the fridge looks out onto the deck -- you could use it as a pass through for a cookout.

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This is the driveway. Kind of long from the paying-for-plowing point of view, but also provides a lovely sense of privacy. The road is behind you, and the house is blending in on the left. This concludes our sneak preview!

Week 10 * Thing 19

Well, I can certainly see all kinds of school applications for this stuff! I know some of my teachers have been using Google Docs, but it seems to me that this set up has more refinement in its toolbars, more stuff ready-to-go, in an obvious and intuitive layout.

Now I want comment boxes in my Word at school.

One part of this exercise was a bit alarming though. I started an account with 30Boxes. com ("It will organize your life!"), but immediately deleted it when it started dragging in all of these online accounts I had set up last spring during my first go at the 23 Things. My Flickr account, my dog's MySpace, all kinds of things. Just a chilly reminder that, if you've put it on the internet, you no longer control it -- whatever it is.

P.S. Hey, I posted from Zoho. This is too hip for words! Shiny!