Wife and I enjoy them too. We lived in a cabin when we were younger, gravity flow water, kerosene lamps, wood heat, wild game... So even when there is a fakey scene we can pretty much fill in the blanks.
Hi all BTW, hope everyone is having a great Holiday season.
And hello back ... yep had / having a nice holiday time. Just got home from a Christmas party w/ some folks we've been friends w/ since high school days. Feel fortunate to have had such good friends for such a long time.
Well we weren't as rustic as you we had electricity. Back in a younger incarnation of ourselves my wife an I lived in a small 2 room, plus tiny kitchen house in the middle of 50 acres of woods. I lived a split personality back them. Durning the day I worked designing and implementing a state of the art computer graphic system. he, he, state of the art back then was monotone green on green screens and 2 dimensional graphics with a computer bigger than a tractor and tailer truck to run the programs.
After work and weekends I live my woodsman's life. Grap the chainsaw and a length of rope. Go cut down a dead tree, drag the sections back to the house, size it and split it with a maul. Needed that wood as the the house was heated w/ an old Ashley wood burner. The house was a 1/4 - 1/2 mile down hill along a very rough 'driveway' from the paved road. Dang w/ a good snow it was totally unpassable so we used to leave our cars at the top of the 'driveway'. Oh yeah and we could only get the cars to within 100 yards of the house. We used a wheel barrow to shuttle groceries and such along a path from where we parked the car to the house.
We really liked living there but when Janet got pregnant we thought we should live a more 'civilized' life so we left our cottage in the woods and move on.
