Spent a couple hours up at the cabin Saturday, chopping wood and checking out the work my brother’s done. There’s a new sliding door over the pantry, and a gorgeous salvaged cherry wood floor in the addition. It’s always nice to be up there.

We’re doing family Thanksgiving on Saturday, but I wanted to run up to the cabin today to hang out with my brother – it’s my 1st Thanksgiving home in probably 17 years, and his first without his babies since they were born. So. We trekked in with a big pot of chili and cornbread, sat […]

We split and stacked wood at the little cabin, drank hot cider from tin mugs, burned brush in a bonfire, and stomped through the stream.

Last time I went to Vermont I posted only a tiny fraction of the zillion photos I took. This time, I barely took a handful!  Tiny snippets of stolen time – riding lessons with my nephews, driving curving dirt roads in crisp autumn splendor, bonfires at the cabin, rain on the new roof, waking up […]