Gone from the mountains for four weeks now. Back in the HEAT of Tucson and missing the mountain cool and the project. The outhouse, not so much. Not the bear visitations either. We have had pictures from family and our contractor, and three weeks from now we'll be there for a short four day visit to check in with the project and because we can't stay away.
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| Slightly fuzzy, but shows the finished roof and the deck |
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| The fourth generation checks out the kitchen area |
I'm insanely busy here with training to be a docent at the world famous
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a decade long dream of mine. The training is like a heavy semester of grad school -- four months of hours in class, more hours observing on the grounds, tons of reading, exams, essays -- but I'm loving it. A long-standing Tucson obsession, finally in the stages of being realized.
I'm still finding a little time to work on some cabin decor finessing and a new obsession of mine -- vintage
barkcloth fabric.
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| Gorgeous pine motif from the 50s with gold metallic squiggles |
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| These are some wild pinecones |
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These two obsessions of mine, being a docent at the Desert Museum (almost a decade in the making) and finding just the right vintage barkcloth for pillows for the new cabin (one month's duration), pale in comparison to my husband's obsession with his long history and future with this mountain property, the cabin that was, and the cabin that will be. Here's an long ago photo of him when the mountain land and cabin obsession was new, almost half a century ago, standing on the summit of a nearby peak and one we can see from the cabin site.
His determination to hang on to what he has always said to me (he's another decade long obsession of mine), that this place is his hands-down favorite, most beloved location on earth, was the primary motivation to rebuild the cabin. There are secondary, also important, reasons for doing so, but they are eclipsed by his need to retain this connection with and be a presence on this his most precious spot on the planet, and the one with which he has the most history. If you are fortunate to have a spot you've identified as The Most Wonderful and Important, then you have to honor that. It's a gift.
