The Cabin

This is NOT the cabin we have. I'm sure I have a cabin picture somewhere but I'm too lazy to get up and find it and then I would have to figure out how to work the scanner again and because it's a 3 in one printer the scanner is all messed up anyway. It's time for a new one but I'm too lazy to get up and go look for one at the stores, I hate dealing with electronic employees. :)

Enough of that though!

We have this cabin, or so I call it in our yard. We have a pretty big yard and on this property is our house, garage, cabin, and a shed(or lack of a better term). It's actually quite cool the cabin AND the shed. The shed has attached to it a snowmobile shed but we don't use it because we have no snowmobile. I know, I know it's sad that we live in Minnesota and don't own a snowmobile! Geesh, how could we? Anyway, in this shed is a toilet even. It must have been an outhouse at one time? Who really knows. We joke about it all the time and have NEVER used it. Anyway, back to the cabin.

I call it a cabin but it could have just been a one room home at one time. Our house was built in the 70's and I know this cabin is older than that. It has a place where you can have a wooden stove and everything. You could hook up electricity to it also. It had one light, one medicine cabinet. It's pretty cool.

We used it for a "play house" for the girls. It was really cool at one point. The girls would play in it every now and then but they really didn't like it all that much. I was scared of it because I think an old man lives in it. Well, my youngest thinks there is an old man spirit in there also but she never really said anything about it.

I have envisioned this skinny old man who is just meaner than snot. EVERY time I would go into this cabin I would get hurt, in some way. Never failed. Even the girls, come to think of it, were getting hurt in there too. No matter who walks in there you get hurt. :( I don't think the old man really likes visitors.

I envisioned him on this lake and he used it as a fish house. NOT that he could do this but I do feel that the cabin has been moved from a lakeshore property to here at some point. I just don't know when.

Anyway, the reason why I'm writing about the cabin today is because we are doing some remodeling to it. If you want to call it that.

We are not very good keeper uppers. We let things go. Why? Well, I guess it's because I'm lazy and my hubby has too many ailments to prevent him from doing alot of things. Well he CAN do them but it takes alot of encouraging to get him to do them. He has RA and it can be very debilating.

Anyway, I get away from the story again. Darn, I hate when I do that!

We have to gut the cabin because the attic door had come open and so rain and snow and just the outside elements were getting into the attic. I had told someone to close this I don't know how many times but noone would so the roof, the ceiling and the walls are just gross. The roof needs repair. The ceiling was collapsing so we have to rip it down and the walls are mildewed. So they must come down. We were thinking about tearing the whole thing down but once the ceiling came down we found out that the frame of the cabin is still in really really good shape.

So anyway, we have been cleaning the cabin up this weekend. My hubby tore down the ceiling yesterday and gee he got HURT. I'm telling you this old man doesn't like people in HIS cabin!
In the ceiling was a bag of white dust but it weighs like 100lbs and it fell right onto my hubby's hand. Surprised it didn't break a finger or two! We were joking that it was a remains of someone because it's in an unlabeled brown paper sack. :)~

So, he tore down the ceiling and up in the ceiling are lots of wood parts. Don't know what they go to and will probably never know. So we were picking up the parts of the ceiling and putting them in the trashbags so we can eventually take all of this to the dump and I found this hymn book. It had the name C.L.(I'm leaving these initials for fear that the relatives might found this post and want secrecy). It has the full name on the hymn book but the date below the name is 1937! WOW, what a find. The funny thing is that this book is in really good shape. Even for all the mildew and such in the ceiling it has very little water damage at all. I told my hubby that I was going to keep this because I do believe he is the "old man"!

So I take this hymn book and I bring it into the house. A few minutes later my hubby is looking out the sliding glass door towards the cabin and he says, "Yep, he's pissed. He just walked by the sliding glass door on the deck!" Well, I immediately told this man that I was putting his hymn book back outside. I did.

We believe he is pissed as heck now because we are gutting out his home and we have his hymn book! He is not at all happy about this.

My daughter told us that she KNEW there was a man spirit in that play cabin forever but noone would believe her about this. She said now we have proof! She went on the internet last night to try and find something about him but she couldn't unless you pay for stuff. She said that he, if he is still alive, is about 80 something years old. She found the relatives of him which were the people who we bought this house from! It's truly amazing.

So, Mr. L. please don't be too mad at us about gutting out the cabin but we must do this to make it better!

The "others".