A trip to the shack in the woods...

I thought today I would show some pictures of my little haven in the mountains.


Whenever I go up to Fishcreek
 (our forty acres about seventeen miles up a canyon),
 I am usually welcomed by one of our horses.

This is Molly.

Below is the view out the door of the shack.

This has got to be my favorite place in the entire world.

It is so close to home, and yet it seems like you are in the middle of nowhere.

Actually...you ARE in the middle of nowhere!

Oh looky here...Bella would like a little camera time as well!!!

She's standing right behind the little shack, about four foot away from the rear wall.

I think she was sneaking up on me.

Which reminds me of a funny story.

A few years ago, I came up to spend the night here ALONE,

and I have to be honest....

sometimes I'm not very brave.

Well I spent the evening hiking around the property and then

came in to settle down for the night. I didn't hear anything outside

because I was watching a movie, when the next thing I know, there was a figure out the door.

It scared me to death and I was afraid to even move.

Because the light was on inside, I couldn't

 make out the figure, so I turned the light

out so that whoever was there couldn't see me as easily

.(like, where was I going to go if they decided to come in)LOL! 

And there in full glass door

 (crazy I know), in the middle of nowhere to have a full glass door with no curtain))

was a horse staring at me!!!

I think he was enjoying the movie too.

I now have a curtain!

The horses have a well worn path down this fence because

 we have the property on both sides of the road,

and we pasture the

 naughty horses on one side and the not so naughty horses on the other.

(not really)

But we do separate them for various reasons.

So now brace yourself! This is not pretty!

We will get to the pretty part in a minute.

Yep...this is it.

 Hopefully later this Fall, the shack won't be this ugly on the outside.

I'm planning on giving it a little face lift.

I would like it's outside to match it's inside.

 Guess what color I want to paint it?

WHITE

of course!

On the inside it has a different feel.

I love coming up here and just sitting and reading my stash of Country Home magazines

that I keep up here. Lots of issues dating back over ten or so years.

Sometimes I take a long nap.

Sometimes I do both.

Now I'm going to shut up for awhile and just show a lot of pictures.

The little shack has a lot of mirrors.

I love reflections.

The green chippy bed my husband found at the landfill almost a dozen years ago.

So that is my little shack in the woods this year.

 I posted about it last year too,

but wanted to do another post about how it looked this Summer.

 I think it is funny that my husband and sometimes my son-in-laws

stay in here from time to time. 

I wonder if they feel a little uncomfortable around all the foof?

So far they haven't complained.

I guess they could always sleep outside with the horses!

Here is a view to the other side of the road.

As you can see it is getting quite dry here this time of year.

The grass in the bottom is getting scarce so 

we will be putting the horses on the hillside until snow flies.

And now Bella wants to say...

THE END.