When we’re in Alaska, we live in a compound of hand-made buildings clustered atop a bluff above the banks of a river. Here’s what it looks like:
Here’s the main house, where we sleep and eat dinner. It’s extremely fancy by tundra standards.
Poking out of the tall grasses over there is our outhouse (where we go to the bathroom). The stick you see at the front of the picture is what we use to find out whether or not someone else is already in the outhouse. If the stick is crossing the path (as shown), the outhouse is occupied. If it’s not, then it’s empty.
And this is the most wonderful house I’ve ever seen. Built by our mad genius neighbor Vern, it’s kind of like a mad scientist’s laboratory. The living area is upstairs, and the bottom story is full of tools and hardware.
There are many more pictures of our various buildings in this post from the summer of 2007 (back before Alden was born).