Pictures of the next room ready to photograph...the Family Room

Finally!  Another room to share.  This is the Family Room at the opposite end of the house from the master bedroom. This is a very comfortable room to hang out in and the only furnished room other than our bedroom and the dining room.  This is the only room that has been painted.  We're very slow at it, with our not completely functioning selves, however, we are just taking it slow and doing what we can when we can. 

This is Tiki on the couch....she's (or maybe it's we that are) lucky this set came from Salvation Army.  She seems to have claimed this spot as her own.  This room is 30'x18'.  Behind "Tiki's" couch there is about 5' of space between the back of the couch and the window.  This space is currently Jeff's music area.  Once we get one of the  bedrooms painted & window coverings hung, he'll move up from a "music space" to a

"music room"!

No clue what Jeff had on TV.  Does anyone recognize it?  Notice dog hasn't moved.........

Turning to the left in the room, this is what's just left of the loveseat in the 1st picture.  It's a nice toasty fireplace with an air blower.  Heats the room beautifully.  Since this room is at one end of the house, we can essentially turn on the heat once in the mornings to warm the place up, then start a fire that evening and be comfortable all day even when it's in the low 20's outside.  This room offers wonderful, natural solar heat just with it's eastward facing windows.

Moving to the only part of the house with any decoration.  This is what we ended up with from Mexico.  Have more, but before we bought the utility trailer to haul our collection of stuff from Mexico, I brought a lot of it to Portland.  It will arrive with the remainder of our belongings next month when Jeff goes north to be the long haul driver and bring our items in storage home. 

Wondering what's behind the curtain????

It's a large square hole in the wall.  Intended to place a flat screen TV inside the wall on a built-in TV shelf.  The problem is, the hole is not big enough or in the correct location to be useful to us.  So, we will at some time in the future, call a handyman to come turn the hole into a built in shelf similar to the shelf you see just to the left of the hanging Mexican blanket covering the hole.  There's the dog again........she moved.

 The dog once more and the final angle for the family room.  The opening you see is into the hall/office alcove.  The open door you see just outside the family room is the laundry.

As you can see, this room is bright and airy and I mentioned it natural solar heat qualities. This time of year it's very nice since it has been cold here.  Not sure how much I'll appreciate it when it's 100 degrees out there.  Might have to replace window coverings with thermals to survive.

Next up for pictures will be the hall/office alcoves, the 3 bedrooms, bath and laundry all at the family room end of the house.  Currently, the living room is an empty staging area for everything - I'm not ready yet to show you the pile of removed mini-blinds and torn curtains, bent curtain rods or the rug cleaner & vacuum that currently reside in the living room!

I will leave you with photos of the mountains east of Pahrump after a little dusting of new snow last week.  Central Pahrump, if there is such a thing, is the intersetcion of Hwy 372 (from CA) and SR160.  It's the only thing that resembles a downtown.  It is at the base of the non-snow covered foothills.  This shot is from our location, about 6 miles west of town.  We are on the opposite side of the valley and  about 3 miles from the mountains to the west, which are also the border between Nevada & California.  As we sit in a bowl surrounded by mountains on all sides, the entire set of mountains were snow covered and it was "muy bonita"!  (See, I did learn "pequeno Espanol"!)

Same shot, non-telephoto.  We love the blue sky everyday.  Don't love it quite as much as the blue sky along with the beach in Mexico, but this is HOME and we're happy to be here!