Our cabin is buttoned up for the season. It is a summer cabin, as are all the cabins in my world. Here is a selection of random photos taken at other people’s cabins, not all this year. Perhaps it will bring on some nostalgia, or maybe it will make you grateful for your modern, spacious, […]
Mineral King, Almost Done for the Year
I have a theory about summer’s heat: when a summer starts out gradually and kindly, it lasts forever. We are living out my prediction this “fall”. On our most recent trip down the hill, it was in the 90s and then the low 100s. So fun in the Botmobile without A/C. Not. The road construction […]
Fall Color in Mineral King
Fall color in Mineral King is fairly subtle. Things turn yellow and brown, and then fall off and leave gray behind. But we also have great aspen trees, and when the light is right and all sorts of mysterious factors combine, they can get bright. Reds are rare, so a strong orange is fairly exciting. […]
Another Work Weekend in Mineral King
To summarize this past season in Mineral King, the word “work” comes to mind. The summer began with neighbors coming to Trail Guy (and the Farmer) for help with a nonworking stove, nonworking refrigerator, multiple and various leaks, and a nonworking water heater. Some of these were multiples. . . many neighbors, many problems. It […]
Twelve New Things Learned in September
Settle in—this is a long list, and will take awhile. This first one actually took place in August but that month’s Learned List was also very full. With my 6′-6″ tall friend, we figured out how to get the spider webs out of the extremely high windows on our A-frame church. 2. The website and […]
Because I want to
Hooo-eeee, I have lost my work ethic, gotten lazy, filled my life with other things, something. . . I used to work full-time as an artist. Now I just piddle around. It’s a relaxed and flexible way to live. Why am I doing this? Because I don’t have any commissions, upcoming art shows or boutiques, […]
While on a Blogging Break, Chapter Three
Gnat and I returned to the beach, this time heading to Capitola, a cute (expensive) little town we’d never been to before. Why there? Because some friends of mine have a little place there and invited us to park in their driveway. Because one of those friends is a drawing student and happens to be […]
Meanwhile, Back in Mineral King
Before the blog and website went dark and I took a subsequent break, there was a major work weekend among the cabin folks in Mineral King. This was the 2nd weekend of reducing fuels, which is another way of saying that a bunch of people gathered together and worked our tails off to clear off […]
While on a Blogging Break, Chapter Two
Anytime I visit Gnat in Gilroy, we go to the beach. Just do. Any chance I get. Always. Every time. We went to this beach last year about the same time. Rio Del Mar has a semi-sunken cement ship, such a curiosity. You can read about it here: https://www.cabinart.net/away-in-gilroy-chapter-one/ (Scroll down about halfway) There were […]
While on a Blogging Break, Chapter One
My dear friend Gnat lives in Texas and spends time in Gilroy in the summer. It is easier for me to visit her in Gilroy than in Texas, so I took Momscar 200 miles northwest of Three Rivers for a handful of days. Yesterday I told you that we (Gnat and I, not Momscar and […]