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Cabin Time at Hume Lake

This is a cabin. It’s a real cabin, not a fancy house in the mountains.

This is a pair of socks on the needles. Instead of spending hours walking around the lake, I got in some knitting.
My friend has a quirky sense of humor. This is in her front yard.

We didn’t just sit around the cabin. We had to figure out why the BBQ wouldn’t light and why it smelled so strongly of propane that the Hume Lake Fire Department showed up at 11:30 one night, sniffing around to find the problem. The next day, two of us spent a couple of hours cleaning the BBQ, then refilled the tank, which solved all the problems.

And we did walk down to the lake a few times. The grass was newly planted, just irresistible.

Summer camps for kids hadn’t yet begun, so the whole place was very calm and quiet.

Even the office has tremendous curb appeal. The entire place is well-maintained, landscaped, and ultra-friendly. (And it has electricity, working telephones, wifi at some of the private cabins, paved roads, and a fire department.) It isn’t Mineral King, but it has its own appeal, and still retains common cabin community characteristics.

The route home went back through Sequoia National Forest and Sequoia National Park. I left early enough to not have to deal with a ton of traffic, except for hoards heading up the hill once I was past Giant Forest. These are two attempts to get photos for painting.

OF COURSE I won’t paint in the speed limit sign. But I think the light on this tree was worth a quick stop.

Tomorrow we will return to watching paint land on canvases.

4 Comments

  1. Love, loVE, LOVE hanging out with you at the T-House Jana! Old friends are the best friends. (I dare you to paint the tree and include the speed limit sign. 😉

    • Same to you, Melinda! Our rekindled friendship has been a solid blessing. (Painting the speed limit sign would guarantee that the painting won’t sell, so I won’t be accepting your dare.)

  2. It looks like a lovely place to spend a week or two–just rustic enough but with most modern conveniences. I’m glad you had such a good time, even though you couldn’t hoof around as much as you would have liked.

    • Sharon, it is so interesting to compare cabin communities, looking for the similarities and also the differences. Everything about Hume is easy compared to MK!

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