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The Affordable Way to Get Your Own Cabin
July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As we sit in our urban homes, we are surrounded by highways, strip malls, office buildings, and parking lots. But the primal part of us hungers to be surrounded by trees and water and winding woodsy roads. As we peck away at our computers, we wish we could escape to our cabin kits . Alaska is far away, but with the Alaskan cabin kit available on the Internet, you can build a cabin closer to home, but with a similar woodsy ambiance. And, because its a kit, you can make it as simple or as elaborate as suits your desires and budget.
Call it a cabin, call it a cottage, or call it a camp. Its all the same thing. Its a little, uncomplicated house that sits in the woods. If you’re fortunate, you can find a spot on a lake where you can build a dock. Imagine the fun of watching your kids jump off the dock into the clear, clean water of a northern lake. With their air mattresses and swim rings, they can paddle around in the shallow water, cementing the sibling bonds and building shared memories that will nourish them when they have their own urban homes and computer jobs.
Imagine tying your boat to the other side of this dock. When the kids are old enough, you can give them the excitement of water skiing around the lake. It doesn’t have to be the hugest lake in the state for the water skiing to be fun. It just has to be big enough for your boat to make large enough circles to keep the skier on the water.
Imagine sitting on the end of the dock, feet swirling the water, with a fishing pole in your hand. Put a juicy worm or an artificial lure on the line, and toss it out. The result of some patience and a couple of beers could very well be tonights supper. Whether the lake is stocked with blue gills or bass, the eatin is good! If the fish arent biting where you are sitting, throw the gear in the boat, and look for greener fish pastures. Dawn and dusk are the optimal time for boat fishing. And, who knows? You just might see a muskrat, beaver, or loon.
There’s another delicious part of this fish dinner, and thats the berry pie! Later in the summer, the wild raspberries and blueberries will be ripening. Hand out a pan, large tin can, or bucket for you and each of your little berry pickers. Spray on the bug repellent liberally. Swab on the sunscreen. Then head for the woods. If its been a good, warm spring and summer with lots of of rain and sun, the berries will fill your buckets quickly (of course not quickly enough for the littlest one of the crew). When the berries are picked over and washed, they will be ready to toss between pie crusts, along with a liberal amount of sugar, and baked.
So bring your dreams to life. Buy a piece of a lakeshore and a cabin kit, and get building!
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