Thanksgiving Plans?

[BRZED]

With the wife scheduled to return from a month long business trip just before Thanksgiving, we are planning to spend a few days getaway at my cabin in the woods, or rather at my cabin in the clearing. Probably it will be too early to go skiing, but I plan on going there in January in any case when conditions will be great for country skiing. I'm a bit worried about the "woofs," bears and big cats. I think I can probably rassle up a wild turkey for dinner. No grocery shops within a few hours worth of driving on dirt roads, but I got a good stock of dry and tinned foods. The fresh meat just needs to be caught.

The best and worst about being there is: no internet! No phone coverage for 60 miles in any direction. The ranger checks one a month on the cabin. A bear or a family of racoons may move in any time. I once found an angry stag on my porch. Ah, fresh air!`

What are your Thanksgiving plans?





This is how it looked there this July:

You can see the one access dirt road along the edge of the woods.

That's not my only lock.

 

[andrewg]

Looks like a clear cut may have occurred a few years back in front of that tree line.

What region of the country is this? Northeast?

 

[DeepFriar]

I think your plans may be better than mine. Two hours from a store? My wife would be gone for longer than a month at a time...

Yes, where is that?

 

[BRZED]

It's very much North and very much East. The tree line has looked like that since I was a kid. My gramps and me built the cabin over two summers back in 2001 and 2002. He was approaching his mid 70s at the time.

 

[DeepFriar]

That's a great memory. Must make for some reflective times on the porch in the evening.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: BRZED
It's very much North and very much East. The tree line has looked like that since I was a kid. My gramps and me built the cabin over two summers back in 2001 and 2002. He was approaching his mid 70s at the time.


Ok...maybe just a shorter species of tree then. They look deciduous vs. the firs/pines in the background.

 

[andyd]

Check for critters in the chimney. Pack in the makings for several meals. The whole trick with this sort of thing is to pre- plan the ordeal out of it. You want to relax, not struggle.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: DeepFriar
I think your plans may be better than mine. Two hours from a store? My wife would be gone for longer than a month at a time...

Yes, where is that?


The next grocery store is 3 hours dirt road plus 20 minutes on a paved road away. I got a decent amount of food stored. Enough for two months without rationing. Before I go, I always stock up on fresh veggies, meat and beverages. Luckily the place is electrified. And as I mentioned, there is food walking around the woods. The bathroom isn't very luxurious. I have a rather scary electric inline shower heater, but there is a little lake only a quarter mile away. Full of frogs and trout. I only eat the latter and the frogs don't mind if anyone takes a bath.

 

[Lyman]

Looks like a beautiful area. If I had a place like that my Wife would ask me to run to the store for something She forgot 10 minutes after we got there.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: BRZED
It's very much North and very much East. The tree line has looked like that since I was a kid. My gramps and me built the cabin over two summers back in 2001 and 2002. He was approaching his mid 70s at the time.


Ok...maybe just a shorter species of tree then. They look deciduous vs. the firs/pines in the background.


I'm not a botanist, but there are some hazelnut trees along the woods' edge. They are obviously wild and small, but their nuts are edible. The dark and deep woods are mostly spruce, fir and pine. There are beech, chestnut, and oak trees. I know a neat place with an Aspen and birch grove that is very nice for a summer picnic. There is very thick underbrush, but you can always get through by following the deer trails. But watch out for the ticks.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: andyd
Check for critters in the chimney. Pack in the makings for several meals. The whole trick with this sort of thing is to pre- plan the ordeal out of it. You want to relax, not struggle.


If you haven't had to evict a great horned owl, you are not a proper woodsman!

Don't worry, I don't go there to struggle, I go there to have fun.

 

[SatinSilver]

Does it have a fireplace?

 

[andyd]

Check for critters in the chimney. Pack in the makings for several meals. The whole trick with this sort of thing is to pre- plan the ordeal out of it. You want to relax, not struggle.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: Blkstanger
Looks like a beautiful area. If I had a place like that my Wife would ask me to run to the store for something She forgot 10 minutes after we got there.

I love the desert and wide open spaces, but a few times every year I need a change of scenery. I really enjoy mountains and dark and deep woods, which are so different from my usual environment.

Before we leave the cabin we always make an inventory of supplies, and before we go back we take our time stocking up on everything we might need.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Does it have a fireplace?


Without one we'd freeze to death during the winter. We actually built the cabin around the old fireplace of gramp's old cabin, which he had built in the late '60s.

 

[CT8]

Magnificent.

 

[DeepFriar]

Originally Posted By: BRZED
Before we leave the cabin we always make an inventory of supplies, and before we go back we take our time stocking up on everything we might need.


Three hours and twenty minutes to a store but you have electricity. You are living large sir and are better off (and probably better prepared) than those folks on The Walking Dead. When the balloon goes up I know where you'll be.

 

[BRZED]

Originally Posted By: DeepFriar
When the balloon goes up I know where you'll be.

That's presuming I can get there, and that's a rather presumptuous proposition.

 

[otis24]

Headed to see my family in NW Arkansas. Will visit for just a day. Then headed to Lafayette LA where my wife's sister moved a year ago (from Denver!). Feel like Im headed to a foreign country. Can't wait! Looking forward to a cajun Thanksgiving: hopefully some alligator, shrimp and other delicacies!

 

[BRZED]

I would like some Cajun food!