I Need a Vacation

I hope everyone had a joyous Thanksgiving! It is always a great time to be at the cabin, from micromanaging a wood oven to produce a succulent turkey to blazing away with a musket.
Friends ask what we do when we are up there, well considering it takes about half a day to gather and chop the wood you burn in a day is a partial answer and the rest cooking what you eat, housekeeping is #1 and then you get to go play. If you are into fishing, rockclimbing, hiking, mountaineering or just keeping the fire stoked, it is all right there.
Shooting the musket was a life-long dream, I would survive, kept a nice group out to 75 yrds. I had some yardage problems but no windage troubles anyway it would have meant venison to eat, lots of fun. The loading process definately makes the 'make your shot count' maxim apparent as it would be tough under less than ideal conditions, simple but time consuming and a little delicate with cold fingers .
It was all of 7 degrees greeting our smiling faces this morning with no snow despite the front that blew through in a hurry making the morning call to the outhouse a reason for internal debate, muchless the midnight call to nature. This is hardly a Tahoe ski cabin, more a mountaineer's respite, beds and a stove. It is simple living at its finest.
It is about a quarter-mile in front of me as the picture shows, just nestled into the pines at the base of the first ridge on the left.