OK so I took a chance and went to spend a weekend with some friends at my friend Micks cabin. Now to explain it fully my friend is a guy who lives up on this mountain all winter long and comes down by snowmobile every 2 weeks to a snow park to meet up with a bunch of us to roast hot dogs and marshmallows by camp fire. Mick has chased me for 2 years and never did I give him a second look or a chance until I was invited to the campfire day a couple of months ago. That was the day I found this wonderful friend. He has a similar story as me his girlfriend of years died exactly 5 months before Richard and when I met him I just happen to walk into the tavern a month after Richards death and he walked up to me and said I have just got to meet you because a angel just walked through the door. I thought he was drunk and needed his eyes checked out. So from that point on I never really gave him the time of day and for 2 years he has told me how much he is in love with me and told anyone who would listen. So after that campfire day he actually turns out to be this great guy.
So he spends all winter up at this cabin. No-one can get there unless they are on snowmobile and he enjoys his quiet time there. So now most of the snow is gone and you can actually drive there by car he invited a bunch of us up for a weekend there. I had never been there but everyone talked about how great it was. Well of course I was the first one there and I was actually surprised. I walked in and there was 3inches of dust on everything. I didn't mind because I do NOT dust anything in my home. It was very beautifully built which he did with his dad years ago. So as time wore on no one showed up and we had the camp fire going and ate hot dogs. I took pictures while there which everyone knows I love to take photos. I just didn't get the inside pictures done before my batteries went dead. At first I was so nervous I had to use the bathroom and thought well he said he had running water but didn't say where. So I asked where the bathroom was and he said at the outhouse outside. I wanted to die. He wasn't joking there was a outhouse with the moon shape on the door. So as night started to come on we figured out our other friends were not coming and he explained there is no POWER to the cabin. So he fires up the generator to get lights on. He explained to me he only runs it for 3 hours a day. I was thinking you got to be joking. Well after 5 hours of light we decided to go to bed. He has 2 of the oldest beds up on the loft. Yes there was 3 inches of dust on the bed I was going to use for I don't think anyone ever slept there ever. So before we could go up the stairs he has to shut the lights out to turn on the lantern. AT that point I could resist and say to him com on pa lets so to bed. He didn't find me funny. Oh but before we could do that he had to hook up the car battery to the TV upstairs so he could watch TV all night long. I was sweating bullets for the cabin was 210 degrees. So we get up stairs the TV is going full blast he is somehow changing the channels with the remote pointed downstairs and I a having a heat stroke. He then shuts the lantern off to light it again to say he needs to put more wood on the fire at that point I said no. So morning comes at 6am. I look outside and it has a inch of snow on the ground. I could have died thinking I may not make it out of here. I'M tired and I think Ill go home at 8a but then his brother arrives to talk about hunting this past 40 years. Every dear or elk they killed was mentioned. 5 hours later I was falling asleep.
So to really sum this all up there was no running water indoors and if I wanted to shower he could warm up water for 4 hours on the wood stove to pour in a box and then pumped out to a shower head. If I wanted a drink of water he had 2 water containers from a spring out back. If I wanted to eat I probably could have on the propane stove. Then if I need the bathroom it is out back at the outhouse. If there was an emergency and need to call someone you could by his cell that is hooked to a antenna. My goodness and this man lives like this all year round. He he has done well for himself. He isn't poor by all means he has money. He just chooses this life. He says this is the last winter there well see.
Overall it was the best weekend I've had for a long time. It was going back to the basics. He was so much fun to talk to and laughed 90% of the time. I wonder if our friends wanted us to have this time and if they did I am grateful. I will keep you updated. Oh I forgot I never left till 6pm to go home and still wanted to stay.
The pictures above is the small red cabin is one he rents out. The other one with the truck is his he lives in.
