Labor Day Weekend

Catwoman and I will be heading to the cabin for Labor Day. This will be the first trip that does not include clean up, repair, or painting. I won't be surprised if some of that happens, and we might need to mow the lawn, but it's not the primary purpose of the trip. We plan to sit on the deck and enjoy the wilderness. (This in no way precludes the odd trip to Dushore the stimulate the local economy at Pam's Restaurant, the Jolly Trolley, or the Sub-Way at the Pump 'n Pantry.) Anyone who feels the need for a road trip, feel free to drop by. For obvious reasons, I'm not posting the location of the cabin on the Web, so e-mail us for directions.

The Late, Great Miss Ebony

It is with great sadness the I report the death, this morning, of our beloved Miss Ebony. The last of out three black cats, she was just shy of her 21st birthday. She has suffered from kidney failure, very common in older cats, for about three years. With the help of modern veterinary medicine, she was able to enjoy a good quality of life until the end. She will be sorely missed.

Trash total

We got the invoice from the trash hauler who provided the roll-off for our cabin clean up. The weight of trash hauled away by them was 1280 pounds. Combined with the pick-up truck loads we hauled home, we estimate the final weight of trash we disposed of to be about 1800 pounds!

Some updates..

We just got back from another couple days at the retreat. After a bit more painting and a conversation with a local contractor, we've now done about all we can do by ourselves to bring the cabin up to snuff. It's cosmetically much improved, the leftover "stuff" is gone, and we added window treatments. We are now able to go for a few days without taking tools and wondering what to do next.

Due to technical issues, the cabin web site has been moved to a new page at:

http://n3hcp.com/cabin.htm

When you look at the pictures remember two important things...first, this is, and will remain for some time, a work in progress. And second, this is a cabin in the woods, not a cottage. It's "rustic" to say the least...or, if you prefer, "cabin chic".

Yet more clean-up!!

Last week we went to the cabin on Tuesday for some more painting and clean-up. This time we had a 12 cubic yard roll-off dumpster to help us out. It looks to us like this cabin was, at one time, a true hunting camp. The number of mattresses and the amount and type of other stuff points to that, so there was a lot of stuff of get rid of. It took us less then half a day to fill the dumpster up! I had to actually go inside (yea, I know...dumpster diving) to pack the junk as tight as we could in order to get it in. We put 10 pieces of bedding, an old TV, several radios, a bread maker, a deep fryer, and old gas grill, and a whole bunch of other stuff in. We also replaced the out house door, so the old door was also in there. Now, at last, the place is starting to shape up. A little more painting, some porch roof work, and we will be done for this season. There's much more to do, but we can now use in in reasonable comfort, devoid of all the junk!