Rain isn't that bad when you have a wood stove.

Hasn't this been an amazing fall.  It's the 7th. of October and the weather has been absolutely perfect with day time temps around 20 Celsius.  We have not even needed the fire going in the nights because it's not been that cold and my big denim quilt is very cozy.  The weather has been so nice that we have managed to cut a giant pile of wood and get a fair portion of that wood split for the fire.

Today though, we woke up to the sound of rain. Storm'n Norman, our favorite radio announcer, 94.7 "The Storm" says that it is going to rain all day.  That means a well deserved rest today. After I finish this blog I'm going to cuddle up with my book and a cup of tea.

This old cabin may be ugly but who ever built it defiantly did a fine job of insulating it.  That may be it's only redeeming feature.  I would love to find out a little history about this place.  When was it built, who built it?  Did someone ever lived here or was it just a hunting cabin?

Somebody went to a lot of work to build stairs down to the water and bury a water line that comes up beside the cabin.  There is still a connector on the end that would have allowed you to connect a pump and get water from the river.  I would not recommend trying the steps though, the wood is very old and rotten.  I think after the first step you would get down the hill in an awful hurry.

We had to do some repairs on the old outhouse this summer and when we had it out of the bush and in front of the shop where the light is much better I noticed some faded writing on the inside wall.  Some one had written a little weather report and the date was marked as September 1943.  That old biffy has been there for at least 67 years.

We have had company for the past 3 days and enjoyed walking the trails through the Maurice Street Wildlife Sanctuary that borders our property.  We also did a couple road trips and explored the trails on the north-west side of Codette Lake and followed the road to the end of the trail on the north side of Tobin Lake.  There is no end of places to go hiking or quading and I can see why so many come this way for hunting as well as the fishing.  We only spotted one deer but saw 3 Bald Eagles and lots of tracks, including bear.

I once heard that when hiking through black bear country that you should wear bells on your cloths, carry bear spray and keep a lookout for scat that has berries in it.  Of course if you are in grizzly bear country the scat would have bells in it and smell like bear spray.