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The Cabin

So after the funeral, we went and checked in with Dad and Beth. They presented Haley with her darling birthday gifts. A great black polka dot purse with a pink H on it, with it's own convenient coffee mug. A new watch (Anne Klien, ohh laa laa) and money. She was thrilled.  Then we headed up to the cabin with Suzanne and her gang in tow.  Here are some pics of all the fun times.  Ian and Haley sharing a tiny hand held game on Maddy's phone.

The girls enjoy our new chairs out in the sunshine.  Yep, I picked up these great little molded plastic adirondacks at Walmart.  They were $6.00 a piece!  A bargain for the cabin, and perfect for the deck!


My poor darling husband discovered that he hadn't put in the jeans he thought he had.  He had put in jean shorts.  So all he had were brand new slacks, purchased for the funeral and jean shorts and some casual gym shorts.  He didn't want to ruin his pants, so he wore his shorts the whole weekend.  His legs were constantly cold.

Isn't he cute!

A view down at the cabin.  The dogwoods are in full Fall glory shining their bright golden leaves all throughout the forest.  Gorgeous!

Mr. Ian helping us stack some of our newly split wood.   We shared a downed log with a gentleman who does work for us up at the cabin and he left us half, all split and nicely stacked!

The girls sweeping the porch.  Aren't they lovely!


We had a great time.  Suzanne and her gang left Sunday around 1:00pm.  I stayed while Frank showed her the way back to the highway.  Then we all worked around the cabin for a couple more hours getting ready for next week's company, the Kinsey's.  I rearranged our bedroom upstairs and gained a bit more room and we were encouraged to see that there would be enough room for us to bring up our king sized extra mattress sometime for that room.  It was cold up there this weekend, but we lit the stove in the front room - we were a bit concerned because we had heard that it smoked, but it was great and offered a great deal more heat to the cabin.  We dug out all the controls for the dozen or so electric blankets up there and outfitted all the sleepers with one for themselves.  Socks was not to be left out... even though he got thrown off our bed about five times in the night.  He kept sneaking back up, I guess he couldn't resist the warmth.  But it kept pulling the covers off Frank and I.   I think I will be looking for a deal on some flannel sheet sets.  They usually get marked way, way down after Christmas. 

Frank was mighty pleased with all the fun at the cabin and knew his dad would be well pleased with how his inheritance was spent!  This is just what the cabin is for!

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