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I dunno. Never thought about it. The house wasn’t there when I made the offer on this house, and it was already half up when I moved in 5 months later. I was shocked, to say the least! Mainly the shock was that a huge blue tarp was hanging over part of the roof and down the front. Having just come from a place (Washington State) where my neighbor annoyed me with blue tarps draped everywhere, I thought I had morphed into some Sci Fi flick where blue tarps were chasing me, chasing me.

But, the tarp was gone soon and the new neighbors were nice. The house was written up in the paper and received a lot of attention. Unfortunately, those folks picked up and moved to WY, or MT, soon to take a job at a university; and I never heard from them again. I’m sure they were liberals, LOL.

She held an open house for some of the ladies in the neighbohood when the home was finished, and it was lovely. They made one huge mistake, IMO. We had a terrible drought the spring and summer after I moved here (1998) and it was unseasonally hot the day of her open house. Because of the sun room attached to the back (facing due south) the heat just poured in, and it was unbearable. My makeup was literally rolling off my face! It never occurred to these people to install some kind of AC in this very “tight” house, and the sun space really boosted the temperature in July. According to the owner who had built the place, after living in a 100 year old restored Victorian for 10 years, “We never had AC before and don’t see any reason for it now.”

Well, after living in a leaky old Victorian, they were unprepared for a weather tight log home. I could see where the AC duct work could have been installed so easily during reconstruction without destroying the architectural integrity, or charm, of the house. But now it was too late.

When I got back across the street to my own house that morning (which was only HALF air-conditioned, btw) I felt like I was walking into a deep freeze, by comparison. We have since installed AC in the parts of our house that had none when we replaced a furnace. I do understand where Pam was coming from because we actually don’t use AC much in south eastern WI. But when you need it, you really need it.

I don’t know what the 2nd owners have done. They are not friendly and do not associate with anyone in the neighborhood. They are probably just sitting over there sweating under a portable fan! LOL.