NO CABIN BUILDING.... WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO? GO SHOPPING!

We are getting so excited to get back to the cabin...  actually, antsy is probably a better word... I looked from a year ago on the blog, and it says that the men made it back to the cabin the last weekend of April... So, being that this is March, we are just preparing....

I came home from work on Friday, and there was this big flat box waiting for me... I didn't realize who it was from until I got a little closer... it was a large metal laser cut sign that was a present I had ordered for Jim... was supposed to be here for Christmas - two months later, it shows up!  I was stoked just how the sign turned out.  Jim is thrilled.  It will make a great house identifier out by the road.  It's like 2 feet square!  Maybe this will be the first thing to be taken to the the cabin this year!!

Jim is constantly telling me to STOP buying stuff for, what he calls, "Cheri's Warehouse".  We have a room downstairs that is full of "DECORATING STUFF".  Amazing stuff.  Recently I found these pillows and thought they would be perfect on the wicker furniture out on the deck.  When I told Jim about them, he had the "pursed lips" action going on.  But, when he saw them, he knew that I would just love them, and thought they would be perfect!  He told me on the phone "you're going to love them".  I really love sunflowers... and moose... The only thing that could make these pillows any cuter, is if they had mooses on them!  Giggle.

At home, Jim and I are in the process of increasing our emergency food and goods supplies, and I was looking online for things like candles and matches and stuff like this.. I came across a guy in Salt lake selling these "stoves"...  You apparently, start a fire in the hole in the top, and then  you can put a fry pan or a pot on top of it to cook with.  The man said the fire will last for three hours. They looked kind of interesting, so on Saturday, Jim and I took a drive up to Salt Lake to check them out...  The man who was making them, apparently, had two Conex units filled with these - approximately 5,000 of them..  They were selling for $10.00 a piece - originally $25.00.  He was hoping to sell them to backpackers and hikers, but Jim and I decided that the guy has chosen the wrong market, and the wrong price.  But, for our purposes, it's perfect.  We think it's a little impractical for a hiker to carry a 20 pound block of wood in their backpack... but, for people with RV's like 5th wheels, or off roading out at the sand dunes, it might be great... But, not hikers or backpackers...  Never the less, we are going to try it just for fun.

And, this was another great find!  You know how I love mooses!!!  Well, we found this brass weather vane in Salt Lake and Jim agreed with me - it's perfect!  Jim is going to put it on the top of the roof at the cabin, and I am delighted!   This was the best picture that we could get.. the wind was blowing and the whole weather vane moving back and forth... so the East is to the West right now... go with it... giggle.

Jim wants to do something like this on the roof to make it a bit more interesting.

And, as usual, the adventure continues!

Jim & Cheri