We have a house!

We arrived in Sitka on Tuesday & were assigned a house & checked into it by Thursday.  We were very excited to FINALLY have a house of our own again, even if it was going to be empty for weeks.  The Coast Guard housing neighborhood is very small.  There is only 1 street, Lifesaver Dr (not like the candy but like what the Coast Guard does, haha), there are only 15 buildings which each have 4 units in them & there is a small playground & BBQ area.  Housing is not on the base like Army & Air Force housing normally is, but it is right next door.  There is a small dirt road/trail that connects the housing neighborhood to the base.  Bunker Rd (named because of the old WWII bunkers that are located along the road), is commonly used for the Coast Guard government vehicles & housing residents to travel back & forth between the base & housing.  It is a beautiful walk through the woods & there are lights all along the path way.  Most service members who live in housing use this path to walk to & from work (Yes, that is how close housing is to the base.)  We were assigned a 2 story town house end unit, so we only share one wall with the unit next to us.  However, we are the only occupied unit in our building at the moment and the building on our other side is completely empty, therefore, we don’t have any neighbors right now.  The Coast Guard has recently been remodeling the housing units as people check out of them, so some of the units are “unavailable” due to the remodeling being done.  Our unit consists of:  Downstairs-  a mud room with a deep freeze (which has also become Gunner’s room), kitchen, dining room, living room, 2 hall closets, storage closet under the stairs, & a ½ bathroom.  Upstairs- there are 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, linen closet, & a laundry room with a washer, dryer & a HUGE storage closet.  The laundry room is BIG, almost the size of a bedroom, & I love that it is upstairs since I won’t have to drag laundry up & down the stairs.  We also have a lot of windows which is nice since we have such beautiful scenery.  The backyard is small, but since there are no fences it is wide open to the others & there is more than enough room for Gunner to run & play.  Each unit is also assigned an outside storage shed.  The car should be getting delivered next week sometime & we are hoping to have our household goods by the end of the month, however, it could be October before we have some furniture.  Keep your fingers crossed for us because the camping chairs in the living room are starting to get a little uncomfortable.        



                                               Entering Coast Guard Housing

                                                   The front of our house