Memorial day weekend - P and I packed up the car and hit the road for an extra long weekend at the Blog Cabin! It was a weekend of retail, relaxation and a really fun campfire!
Saturday morning the fun began - I woke up at 5:45AM, grabbed a coffee and made my way over to my sisters house to help out with our yearly family yard sale. There was a ton of stuff to sort through and organize - Furniture, tools, clothing, toys, thingy-ma-bobs and whatcha-ma-call-its. The yard sale began at 8AM and our first customer arrived at 7AM! Wha??? We weren't even set up yet! lol. By 9:30 our sale was packed with buyers and we where wheeling and dealing with sales!
Some people would pay for the item as marked (sticker price) and other people would barter which made it more fun and it made whatever they were buying that much more enticing for them once we yelled "SOLD!" We met a lot of interesting people and our overall total was $1,489.00 - my personal total was a whopping $44.00! lol I guess I should have brought more stuff to sell! haha
After the yard sale had ended, the rest of the remaining items were packed up and dropped off at the local salvation army. Overall our sale was a SUCCESS!
After the sale was over, it was time for Blog Cabin fun and relaxation! P and I took a ride to the Quabbin Resevoir and might I say, "WOW!" It was the first time I have ever seen it and it's amazing! Here is some history for those of you who don't know about it:
Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest man-made public water supplies in the United States. Created in the 1930s by the construction of two huge earthen dams, the reservoir is fed by the three branches of the Swift River, and seasonally by the Ware River. Quabbin's water covers 39 square miles, is 18 miles long and has 181 miles of shoreline. When full, Quabbin holds 412 billion gallons of water.
Here is a sample:
Sunday night was super fun. We had some Blog Cabin visitors who came bearing blog cabin gifts!!! My soon to be brother-in-law and sister-in-law Kathy & Darryl... and a truckload full of dry campfire wood!
According to the wood expert Darryl it was 8 year old dry wood to be exact! YAY - it's time for a fire and family fun! We unloaded the wood in a chain like formation - Kathy, Patti, and I would grab the wood off the truck bed and hand it to Darryl who would then use his professional wood stacking expertise to make the most perfect wood pile I have ever seen! Check it out!
I had no idea there was a system for stacking wood, but look at each end of the pile - perfectly flush - amazing! Also, a little wood stacking 101 provided by the wood expert Darryl - keep your wood pile elevated off the ground to avoid moisture. Also, hickory is the most dense wood. Our pile has a mixture of hickory and maple. The more dense the wood is, the longer it will burn. Darryl can tell what kind of wood it is by the bark on each piece - very cool.
Once the truck was unloaded, we made a quick trip down to Anne's Dairy Bar for dinner and a ice cream. Then, back to the camp to light up the wood and enjoy a nice relaxing fire!
Here is a handsome shot of the wood expert himself! Thanks Darryl! :)
Monday - P and I said goodbye to the cabin and headed home. It was a great weekend and we are looking forward to the next one!
See you then!
J & P
Ok, so before jumping into all of the changes & renovations the Blog Cabin has gone through, I'd like to touch upon a few personal life changes & renovations of our own (which will also explain where P & I have been all this time!)Since we've been away we have had over 15,300 page views! Thank you Blog Cabin fans! I wasn't sure anyone was reading and now I know! Long "campfire story" short - we have had quite the journey. I had a little run in with cancer which I cancer-tainly say ;)... I have proved victorious! Cancer = 0/ J = 1! Boom! As well as a back surgery (ruptured disc)- followed up by 2 vocal cord surgeries, which left me with a couple very sore throats and a somewhat decent voice! I didn't have a voice for 1 whole year - can you believe that!? Not having a voice for that long was totally weird, but also helped me fine tune my writing skills so, Blog Cabin fans get ready for some interesting posts this Blog Cabin season! But, before we start I would like to give a quick shout out to P and my family who took care of me and got me through it all - family is the best! #WHOA #LOVE. All of the medical bills have been paid and funding is once again available for our Blog Cabin Adventure! So, let's get started - shall we?! We have a lot to catch up on so pay close attention or it's very possible you could miss something! We have come a long way Blog Cabin fans and we have a lot more to do so grab your tool belt and follow along - let's get it going! Let's start with the outside. We will eventually invite you in for a peek, but we need a little time to tidy up a bit. From the last time you were here, we have put on a nice bright red tin roof and some siding! All courtesy of "our Wayne" and friends of course! Nice work fella's! The red tin roof was a lock! P & I agreed on it from the very beginning. The siding on the other hand, took us a little longer, but eventually we got there. We were torn between a log cabin or a rustic country cabin look. This decision was big, huge in fact because let's face it...whichever siding we chose determined the entire look and feel of the Blog Cabin. The siding is the "face" of our tiny rustic cabin. After many a conversation about shaker shingles, clapboard, mahogany log, maple, pine & barn board we couldn't talk about it anymore. The time came where we needed to take action and make a firm decision! It all came down to a very, very intense coin toss which took place around the Blog Cabin campfire one night. Our Wayne was there, my mom, me & P and an oversized bag of marshmallows - yum. It was dark so we had a flashlight ready for the results of the toss. "Heads" was log cabin siding and "tails" was a clean line, sage green clapboard. P slowly took the quarter, repeated the rules of the toss, placed the quarter flat upon her thumb and with a quick flick, popped it up into the starry night sky. The quarter shimmered as it turned and flipped through the air and as it made it's decent down...well... P failed to catch it :)After some searching and debating on where we all thought it fell, with the flashlight in hand and a 10 minute delay - we found it and....
TAILS! Sage green clapboard wins the toss! 
Memorial day weekend - P and I packed up the car and hit the road for an extra long weekend at the Blog Cabin! It was a weekend of retail, relaxation and a really fun campfire! 
I found the original picture that was posted with the real estate listing back in 2007. We sure have come a looooooong way! :)
Another season came and went and the Blog Cabin is now officially closed for the season. P and I will stop in every now and then and post pictures of the snowy brook and cute cabin covered with snow. Maybe we will build a snowman on the front lawn to keep our little cabin company while we are away :) Season 4 is right around the corner, so stop in every once and a while for a visit and some off season surprise posts. Happy Holidays! J & P
