Roughing It At Winter Camp
January 8th, and we're all settled in
to our Winter cabin!
It's so nice to have good friends.
Sall's hunting buddies offered their hunting camp
to us for a place to ride out the rest of what looks
to be another brutal winter....
Sunday was the last day of hunting season....
With a couple of inches of new snow
and the temps in the single digits
camp emptied out in a hurry on Monday!
I packed up my computer
(I've got my priorities straight)
some clothes and food
and we headed west 9 miles.
At least now we are on a road where the
county plows will clean the road, and I'm
only 4 miles from my baby-sitting job!!
We are both so grateful this opportunity came along.
Every time the wind would blow, the stress level
was about to take us off the deep end!
Now the wind howls....
and Sall brings in another log for the fireplace!
Life is good
and
"Camp" is pretty awesome in the winter time!
~~~~~~~
Now, I suppose some "girls" wouldn't be too keen
on the thought of living in a man's camp.
Looking at hides and antlers and dead pheasants on the wall,
wouldn't be their cup of tea. I admit this camp was a little on
the rustic side (even for me) a year ago! But, the boys joined
together and did some remodeling and improving...
NOW it's quite the impressive masculine hang out,
a great-looking, cozy, and
MASCULINE hang out that I will
thoroughly enjoy for the next 7 weeks!!
Camp is now 1800 sq. feet of rustic charm.
The original building was an old Mobil Gas Station
building located in Wessington Springs (my hometown).
Our friend's parents moved it onto their farm circa 1960,
where they used it as a machine shop for the next 20 years.
{Some time soon I will sit down and get the whole story
of how hunting camp began}
That will be worthy of quite a
few blog posts!!
This past fall, several of the original gang
brought their talents to camp.....
What do you get when you bring a builder,
an electrician, a logger, a mason, and
a hot-air balloon pilot to an old gas station?
answer: a lot of trash talk and a great looking "huntin' camp"!
The guys all worked really hard to get the
addition completed by opening pheasant weekend.
Their hard work payed off and the hunt was on!
Today it's 6 degrees outside... we are sitting by the fire
and watching football on the big screen t.v.
"Camp has come a long way, boys!"
I've only done a little domesticating,
and a LOT of cleaning!! The boys probably
wouldn't appreciate my redecorating of the mantle
or the flowers and cloth on the table, but I just couldn't
help it. That's what girls do, ya know!
I'm really going to enjoy my
new office for the next 2 months!
This is where I'll be blogging from...
right under the old Mobil horse!
And when we leave, I'll put everything
back where it was and the men
can get back to their trash talkin'
card games.
A BIG THANK YOU
to Bows and Kev!
Hoping your winter is stress-free and cozy too,
Comments
Beautiful stained glass, a real fan of this craft.
Stay warm & safe!
Those old Mobil stations have so much character and your remodeling has made it even more special.
I love your husband's stained glass piece, it is a perfect image of this happy place.
Stay warm!