Have an interest in wild birds?:
While working outside on May 12, I couldn't help but notice the jungle like sound of the local bird life. That day alone, without trying, I saw multiple Baltimore orioles, once with a scarlet tananger and a ruby throated hummingbird in the backround. Also, there were downy, hairy, and pileated woodpeckers around, as well as assorted ducks and Canada geese. The usual songbird suspects were about, such as catbirds, red winged blackbirds, chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches, blue jays, mourning doves, grackles, rose breasted grosbeaks, robins, ravens, crows. In the field were tree swallows, bobolinks and bluebirds. That day I did not happen to see a bald eagle, osprey or loon, but one usually does. Yellow rumped warblers, yellow warblers and various sparrows were lurking amongst the underbrush. It was quite a wild life day.
Fireplace:
The fireplace is pretty to look at, but non functioning. A design flaw prevents sufficient draft.
Of course, the house is centrally heated, and even has an automatic back up emergency generator in the event of an outage.