Cabin Life in Summer, Part Two
More cabin photos, to incite nostalgia, or perhaps gratitude, or maybe even curiosity. (All remain anonymous, because we value privacy here on this little corner of the World Wide Web.)
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Cabin Life in Summer, Part One
Our cabin is buttoned up for the season. It is a summer cabin, as are all the cabins in my world. Here is a selection of random photos taken at
Mineral King, Almost Done for the Year
I have a theory about summer’s heat: when a summer starts out gradually and kindly, it lasts forever. We are living out my prediction this “fall”. On our most recent
An Odd Job | Bearly Working
I forgot to warn Trail Guy that there was a bear in the workshop and thus, it startled him. The cats were fine with it. He had some spots—bird droppings?
SOLD in Summer 2026
Every so often I need to see what has sold, or I begin to drift into thinking that I am irrelevant, semi-retired, on the edge of obsolescence, and possibly about
Cock-a-doodle-doo and Gilroy too
I started this 8×8″ painting of a rooster from A Housewife Writes because I wanted to, not because I think it will have a large market among my tens of