Family Cabin

This is our family camp. It is located near Minnehaha Springs, WV, in the Monongahela National Forest in Pocahontas Co. My grandparents bought it in August 1971 and I was born in November. So I have literally been going out there all my life. I feel more at home there than I do where I've grown up and spent most of my life. It was originally an old farmhouse, and I believe the people ran a general store and gas station from this location, just a few yards off camera on the right. This was taken in late fall, maybe even at Thanksgiving, so it isn't looking as lovely as it is most of the year. I hate the forsythia in the foreground :( The original part of the building is the tall part. There is a little sloping roof on the backside, that was added by the owner who sold it to my grandparents. You can't see the chimney, it's behind the tree, but the owner also built the chimney. It is a lovely stonework fireplace. We have since added a pellet stove, because the oil stove my grandparents added quick working (it was older than dirt so it was to be expected.) My husband and a friend put the pretty green metal roof on it two summers ago.

Hubby and I got to go out there last week, and it was good. I was able to sit around and not go anywhere for two days. We did get up early both days to go out fishing, but didn't catch anything but the ones that were too small to keep. The first day we were going to go back out in the evening but it came a storm. By the next evening we were going to be leaving the next morning so there was no point, we wouldn't have been able to cook them. I guess we could have brought them home, I just thought of that. Duh!

We will be going back the first weekend of October to winterize the place, then hopefully going up for the week of Thanksgiving to get in some trapping. We have antifreeze dirt this year so we should get something! Our son is really looking forward to that.