Sometimes you have to just unplug all the machines, put on your warmest flannel, run to your local grocer, stock pile canned goods and make a hasty retreat to the best log cabin at your disposal. You really can’t pick a better weekend to go than Valentines weekend. Especially if your Valentine is cute, has given you Deluxe Scrabble as a Valentine Gift and is fun on road trips.
The lo-fi woodsy retreat was just what the doctor ordered. The weather was a bit odd though. It’s as if we here in the Great White North are experiencing a non-season. Its the middle of February, there’s no snow on the ground and everything is filthy dirty brown — dead or hibernating. There were no critters strolling about for national geographic moments. I mean nothing. We even left syrup covered waffles out on the deck in an attempt to lure any warm blooded creatures out from their winter nook but for two days we had no takers. Saddly, maybe that says more about my waffles then it does the animal life around Lake Pepin.
The whole vibe got even creepier when outside nature walk excursions were attempted from the cabin. The lack of snow, greenery, people, critters, and… well…any form of life whatsoever, left imaginations to run amok fueled by way too many bad horror movies as a child. Damn Steven King for writing, Children of the Corn. Best to stay in the cabin. Never Get Out of the Boat.
It gives one pause to reflect. And here’s what I learned and or discovered:
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- I absolutely suck at Trivial Pursuit.
- Lego’s needs to make “Lego Brand” Stereo components that you can stack in personalized configurations.
- Split Pea Soup gets thicker and thicker the more you let it sit around.
- I want to own a log cabin in the near future.
- A good kitchen DOES make you a better cook.
- I need to sell Chronicle Books on a coffee table book entitled “Left Out to Pasture: American’s love of leaving things in their yard”
- Not all my ideas are very “good”.
- Listening to Frank Sinatra never gets old.
- The movie Ghost World is not as good as the book.
- I need to take more vacations.
If your interested, the Cabin is for sale if you have the money.