Small Cabin Living – Autumn Chores

by Wiggy · Published 07/10/2020 · Updated 06/12/2020

Life in a Small Cabin

Fall time around here is great. Seasonal employment is done and its time to enjoy small cabin living. This year the weather was fantastic and the scenery, amazing. Everything turned gold and stayed that way for a long time. Completing our chores is a lot of fun. See small cabin life.

Camp fire at the cabin with cute dog and cat — *Autumn at the cabin*. *Everyone gets a rock.*

I was thinking about about activities that we routinely do here that probably aren’t done by most other people. There are also many things we do that are quite normal and modern, blogging for example. But many of our daily activities are unique when compared to everyone else.

*Chopping little wood for the cook stove*

For example, I light a lot of fires. Each day the wood stove in the cabin is lit and possibly re-lit if no one is here for awhile. If we use the cook shelter and stove outside there needs to be a fire. If we have a campfire outside there is another fire to light. Finally, we are installing a wood stove in our shower so that it can be used all year. See video! That fire will have to be raging before it will be any fun to take a shower this winter!

cabin, wood stove, cat — *Everyone likes the fires.*

Here is a list of unusual activities:

Chop wood
Carry water jugs
Boil water for dishes
Wear a headlamp
Go outside to the bathroom
Light pilot lights
Move a 100lb propane tank
Start a generator
Strike a match
Dry clothes by the fire
Help hang a deer/elk/moose
View the stars and northern lights

There is probably more but these are the main things that come to mind.

Hauling water cabin — *Hauling water to the cabin*

We both grew up in normal suburban environments in different larger cities. It’s hard to say what happened to us to end up here.

cabin breakfast — *The breakfast bar – Carl forgot his headlamp. What a dork!*

Here is the list of stuff we don’t do much:

Walk across a busy road or use a cross walk
Wait in line
Walk on a sidewalk (I walk across a parking lot to get groceries though)
Flush a toilet
Adjust a thermostat
Look in a mirror that’s bigger than my face
Exercise in public
Turn on a tap
Watch tv
Ride an elevator or escalator

Another thing that I will share that is kind of funny….as if we aren’t weird enough, sometimes we sleep on the deck. This happens even in the winter. If the stars and moon are fantastic we sleep in our sleeping bags outside. If its summer and the bugs are bad, we put up a tent.

Cute dog in doghouse — *Twig also likes sleeping on the deck*

Having said that, there are a lot of different things that go on around here that replicate a modern lifestyle. This isn’t exactly the way our ancestors lived.

Poppies. cute cat, cook shelter — *Harley behind the cook shelter heading for the poppies*

We are well connected with smartphones, computers and many other electronic devices

I have a mountain sled. (It is great.) We have vehicles for different purposes. We don’t farm or garden.

So this would seem to some (maybe just me) that we have the best of both worlds. There are the chores that require work with no modern conveniences paired with social connections and other activities that require very modern technology and machinery.