Aunt Jemima's maple syrup envy. Vol #2 - A cabin in the woods.

As I mentioned in the first post of this series, the cabin we stay in belongs to friends of my brother's. It's located near Dodgeville, WI and sits in a valley on 1,000 acres. Beautiful and quiet. Deer feed in the fields below the cabin, the dogs run around at their leisure...might hear a tractor or chainsaw or an errant gunshot here and there but other than that...quiet.

We didn't turn the water on for fear that the pipes might freeze after we left. So we pumped water into buckets and used them for dishes and washing up. But no showers. Too much trouble. It's just us - who cares? There's no heat aside from the wood we burn in the fireplace. Electricity, yes. No TV and cell phone reception is 5% to not at all. We have satellite radio and we listen to two stations - Old Time Radio (more on that later) or Bluegrass. The radio's never turned off.

The video below gives you a nice tour of the cabin.



Click on READ MORE! for a few more pics, just to give you an idea of where we lived for a 6 or 7 days.

NEXT POST: Vol #3 - The soggy mountain boys start burnin' sap!

Deer stand.

Breakfast. And milk.

Dinner. Pork and beans. And milk. Come on - we're from WISCONSIN.

Outside looking inside looking outside a barn.

View of one of the barns from where we were burning the maple sap.

Barn wall.

Jas and the dogs - Molly and Zol (at his feet) - relaxing with Daddy.