Talk about a white Christmas!

What a beautiful site, we're happy tonight...walking in a winter wonderland!

We got 6-8 inches of beautiful snow on Christmas Day and the following day. Mike, Sammie and I had to leave TN early to make it home. :-( We barely made it home in time for the weather to get REALLY bad! We bundled Sammie up for her first play in the snow and enjoyed our time together.

The sun is out now and it is starting to melt but it sure was pretty!

Almost Done!!!

The Lodge was supposed to be finished this month, but there is still a little left to do. It is VERY close though! It looks beautiful too! It looks almost like it used to, but better! I'll walk you through it...

The Kitchen:

OMG... the kitchen was gutted and the floorplan switched. The idea is that the Teaching Kitchen wing may eventually get equipment and will then be able to access the cleaning part of the kitchen, storage and fridge/freezer without having to go through the entire kitchen. We just got all new equipment too! A new oven with burners, a brazon tilt skillet, a new warmer and a NEW DISHWASHER (that is square!). The big windows now have roll up doors so they do not run the risk of falling and landing on someone.

The Main Lodge Dinning Room:

This area is the last to complete because they want to refinish the floors as the last thing. They have removed and re-placed the trim around the windows and added blinds. They have removed and moved a few doors. They have installed the HVAC ducts and are waiting on the lights. They should be here next week. They have added a large storage area at the far end of the dinning hall to put chairs, tables and rental equipment. The will be touching up the face of the fireplace to fill in cracks...I think we will be moving to gas log for a few reasons: 1) We have an intense fire suppression system now and do not want to trigger it 2) the flumes were very damaged and cannot affordably be fixed. Meaning there would be smoke leaked into the dining hall, thus setting off the sprinklers.

The Officers Lounge/Chestnut Room:

The history in this room was very important to preserve. They had to take the roof off for structural reasons and also the walls. The saved the panelling to re-hang. They wanted the roof to be the same height as the rest of the Lodge so they raised it a few feet. This left a gap between the existing panelling and the new roof. It will be painted a cream color like the matching wings. They did exposed beams and black hardware and it looks amazing!

The New Addition:

There was 40 square feet of additional space added on, it includes a bathroom for each gender and a new camp store. The old deck was also taken off and a new wrap around deck was built with composit boards make from recycled plastic.