Our Mountain Lodge
Written by admin on March 30th, 2008Recently I said to husband, “Want to meet me at our mountain lodge?” He knew exactly what I was talking about. “Yes” was his answer. 
Our mountain lodge is just a few steps from the kitchen. We have never had the money to really travel, though we have worked in a few nice family vacations through the years.
When I rearranged the living recently, my husband said I struck gold. I think so too. This cozy little spot for us to sit and face the old gas heater is like a romantic get-away — if we want it to be.
Everything is what you make it.
I told hubby that I pretended that the living room was a lodge way up in the Appalachian Mountains. The gas heater is a great big fireplace with logs burning. I can look over to the window and see the birds. It’s charming.
One of the things I have always loved about my husband is how he jumps right in. He is happy to pretend he’s at a mountain lodge too. We put our feet up on the footstool and enjoy the roaring fire.
We got out the bird book and talked about how we used to look at birds with our oldest when he was just 2 years old. He could name all the local songbirds: tufted titmouse, cardinal, black-capped chickadee, purple finch, and so on. I told husband we’d come full circle because here we were sitting with our last child doing the same thing. (It didn’t take our daughter long to figure out where we were and pile on the loveseat with us.) She’s a bit older and very much into taking pictures with my digital camera.
She took this picture of the dove. It may not look like much, but bear in mind that we are behind a window so she has to turn the flash off and hold the camera very still while the shutter lets enough light in. It’s cloudy and gray here today and she has got the camera on digital zoom, just about as closely in as it’ll zoom. So I think she did a good job. Her request for her birthday is her own digital camera to photograph things outside. I hope I can do that for her.
Without telling “Papa Bear” as she calls her daddy, we set the camera up to take two automatic shots of us. That’s why I am smiling so big. Papa Bear is studying the birds, without any idea he’s about to have his picture taken.
We saw a grackle today and a rufous-sided towhee. I wish I could have gotten pictures. It’s just too wet outside.
Happy Sunday,
Lynn
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you’ve got such a beutiful an peaceful site here. I feel at peace just being here.
Many times I want to create that hme feeling in my life again.
your blog is isnpirational for me to do this.
Have you been at te homeschoollounge?
I think you would love it. It’s a social networking site just for homeschoolers.
All the best,
Eren
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Thanks, Eren.
I appreciate your kind comment. I have not been to the site you mentioned, but I’ll be sure and check that out.
Lynn