Sunday, August 9, 2015

August 9, 2015- Work On My Wood Shanty Going Quickly

We have 6 courses of clapboards installed on my cabin. We cannibalized a 4x4 sliding glass window from down at the house and hauled it up to the cabin site for later installation. The clapboards were obtained free as well as the used window.

The weather was beautiful yesterday cool 75 degrees 15 % humidity and bright sunshine.

Today is my day of rest, thank goodness! I'm tired, sore and sunburnt in places.

I've got a load of laundry to do and groceries to buy...and miles to go before I sleep... Ha-ha! Line from Robt Frost.

We're trying to get a lot done on my apartment in the woods before Bruce Bell takes off for a week trip to Ecaudor to visit his granddaughter so we're picking up steam this coming week.

Ollie and Zador, Bruce's dogs come up with us every morning to the cabin site but get bored easily and then either go back down to the house or go exploring farther up to Santa Fe Mountain and only come back to the house at chow time about 5:15 pm and boy they can tell time better than any Swiss clock!

Once completed my smallish wood hut will provide me with 100 square feet of living space, complete solitude, freedom to think and acres upon acres of piney woods, deer, bear, turkey, mountain lions, rabbits, squirrels, huge rock formations, bottomless gulches, beautiful blue asters, and daisey's high atop Clear Creek Canyon.

I've had friends ask whether I will miss having daily interaction with people and "civilization" and my response is why would I miss the craziness going on in the world right now. The "World" has gone mad, mad as a hatter as they say.

But, I plan on hiking down Bell Mountain twice weekly even in the dead of winter the 4 miles to town to keep my many relationships alive, get supplies and to visit society much as one would go to the Zoo to be entertained by the machinations of human animals.( Henry David Thoreau said something like this in "Walden.")

I love being around people like anyone else; but, I most definitely prefer the society of myself. Having said that, I must continue to remind myself why I walked here from Illinois: to become a literal disciple of Christ to proclaim the Kingdom of God. That necessarily entails being amongst people.

However, I plan on writing while locked up in my cabin in the woods. I have a lot to say about many topics. Being alone unfettered from without will inspire me.

Well, its time to go do some laundry and purchase groceries for the coming week. Gonna skip Church today...just not feeling it today. Know what I mean?

4th pic is of my front yard on Bell Mountain.

See ya!

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