Thanks d.
We're in Northeast Pennsyltucky, its been pretty cold for the last couple weeks, after a much warmer than normal fall, but we've lacked any significant snowfall so far. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but PA seems to have two distinct weather patterns which meet north of Allentown right at the Lehigh tunnel. When I was living there in Allentown, (still catchy), I couldn't believe how much warmer the weather was than even the Wyoming Valley just up the pike.
The door... You have to have a minimum inseam to visit.
That whole side of the house will have a deck with stairs sometime next summer. When you live in it while you're building you have to put up with some annoyances, if you don't want a morgage.