Hi all,

I just have to share with you our new place in the woods. Unfortunately, a sad event had to happen before we got the place. My husband's father died in early August and left us the "camp". We went up last weekend to do a little cleaning up and to start making it "ours".

This place is a vertical log cabin that sits atop a wooded knoll of ledge. It's actually visible from the road provided you know what to look for and where. Although there is no running water, there is a clean, abundent spring down at the bottom of the little hill. The inside is all wood floors and walls with exposed beams in the ceiling. The living room has a picture window that over looks the slope of the knoll and a small woodburning stove for heat. There is a tiny bedroom off to one side just big enough for a bed and a dresser, a little bathroom with a chemical toilet and a decent sized kitchen with a wood-burning cook stove for winter cooking and hot plates for summer cooking.

Occasionally, we can hear a car go by but can not see any other houses and no one can see us. We can sit outside and watch the neighbor's cows grazing in the pasture above a small pond.

The lot for the cabin is only about an acre but we also own the ten acres across the road. Mostly hardwoods with a few open areas, some beautiful white birches and several intersecting ancient stone walls. Who knows? Maybe one day before long, we'll be living at camp while building a slightly larger homestead on the ten acres.

I can not tell you how peaceful and pleasant it is there. It's about a three hour drive to get there but I feel as if I've come home every time we go up. Thanks for listening.

Wishing you enough.

-- Trevilians (aka Dianne in Mass) (Trevilians@mediaone.net), August 29, 2001

Answers

Congradulations Dianne!!! Enjoy your camp until it is your home sweet home. I know how you feel. We used to come out here (our homestead) before there was anything here and sleep in the back of our station wagon. Anything, just to be here. Wishing you the best.

-- Belle (gardenbelle@terraworld.net), August 29, 2001.

Sounds absolutely beautiful. Good luck and God bless you in your endeavours.

-- Christine in Oklahoma (cljford@aol.com), August 29, 2001.

Dianne, congratulations! It is peaceful and soothing to the soul to have such a beautiful, quiet place to escape to. Maybe, someday, the escape will be a permanent one!

I told the girls at work about your ending wish and they thought it was wonderful. All any of us needs is enough.

-- Sheryl in Me (radams@sacoriver.net), August 29, 2001.

Sounds good to me too Dianne. Enjoy.

-- Uriah (Uriahdeath2@netscape.net), August 30, 2001.

Thanks for all the well-wishes. Why does being a camp feel more like "real-life" than being here?

Wishing you enough.

-- Trevilians (aka Dianne in Mass) (Trevilians@mediaone.net), August 30, 2001.

It sounds like your husband's father left you with a wonderful gift to remember him by; by your description, what a wonderful place it is. I think we all need a place to just kick back a while and reflect on how our lives our progressing. Enjoy it.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), August 30, 2001.

Oh dianne, what a wonderful gift! Now I know what to aim on leaving each of my children, if I am blessed with the ability to do so.

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), August 30, 2001.

Sounds like a little piece of heaven here on earth. Consider building in the 10 acre parcel while you have the camp to stay in. You can always use the camp as a guest house later. Probably couldn't ask for a better situation to get started. Good Luck and enjoy!

-- Rose Marie Wild (Wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), August 30, 2001.

It's nice your father-in-law had a son to leave it to who will love and enjoy the camp as much as he did.

-- Teresa (c3ranch@socket.net), August 30, 2001.

Does it feel more like home because there is more peace and less clutter? My own home is not so peaceful with the Giant Clutter lingering here. I am seriously considering going from room to room and stripping everything down to bare basics with little bits of "homey" things (pictures, doilies, etc.) scattered tastefully about.

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), August 30, 2001.

Sounds like a story book dream !! When you do build your home are your going to go all "modern" ?? Think about it before your do. It is peacefull there now because you have not everyday worries and house gadgets to invade you dreaming. Are you going to homestead ...compost toilet...central heat ?? Since it is such a beautiful and peaceful place consider the type of home you will build with that in mind so you can still feel the peace and quite. Good Luck !!!

-- Helena Di Maio (windyacs@ptdprolog.net), August 30, 2001.

Sounds great--enjoy!

-- Sharon (spangenberg@hovac.com), September 01, 2001.