I Want a Log Cabin With Wrap Around Porch
I have dreamt of returning to the birthplace of my great-great-grandfather and rebuilding the logging camp near the beaver-dammed creek (now small lake) which is fed by a spring thirty feet behind.
The access-road is now overgrown and pot-holed and is quite some distance from a main road, highway 127 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. There is no electricity along the lumber road, and kerosene lamps and a pot-bellied stove were the lighting and heating systems in the tiny camp during my youth. It had a small table, assorted chairs and bunk-beds along two walls for the lumberjacks. A large hay-filled barn and an outdoor two-hole privy completed the living arrangements. The barn was for the feed and the Clydesdale horses which were used to haul the logs down off the hills to the lumber road.
Now that I am approaching my seventieth year, however, I have begun to think that I would miss my hot and cold running water, the thermostatically-controlled heating system, my TV, computer and other toys, as well as our municipal sewage system.
Maybe I'll think it over.
The access-road is now overgrown and pot-holed and is quite some distance from a main road, highway 127 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. There is no electricity along the lumber road, and kerosene lamps and a pot-bellied stove were the lighting and heating systems in the tiny camp during my youth. It had a small table, assorted chairs and bunk-beds along two walls for the lumberjacks. A large hay-filled barn and an outdoor two-hole privy completed the living arrangements. The barn was for the feed and the Clydesdale horses which were used to haul the logs down off the hills to the lumber road.
Now that I am approaching my seventieth year, however, I have begun to think that I would miss my hot and cold running water, the thermostatically-controlled heating system, my TV, computer and other toys, as well as our municipal sewage system.
Maybe I'll think it over.
By:
heavyduty1
Age:
66-70
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Male
