Early last summer when we bought our little cabin in the woods the locals warned us about the horrendous road conditions in the spring when the rains come and in the fall, again, when the rains come. Well…this last Monday morning we attempted to go down our hill and then on to our home in Fife. We barely got out of our driveway when on the first corner we began to slip, slip, slowly…. SLIP down the bank. Now believe me the pictures below don’t truly show what a precarious situation we were in. So-o-o MDSP (My Dear Sweaty Pie) hiked back to the cabin and got the come-a-long and hooked it up to the truck and a tree along side the road and with a little careful driving forward MDSP was able to get us out of that fix. But that was just the first 500 feet of our drive…during the next mile or two I courageously trotted along in front of the truck giving hand signals to MDSP to let him know which way the front wheels were turning so he could stay in the ruts and keep from going over the bank (as our neighbor had done the week before). We have decided to stay down here, safe and sound on the paved roads, until it freezes enough up on the hill to make the roads drivable. Then the SNOW comes and that’s a whole other story…at least we have snowmobiles to deal with that little challenge.LOL
Just under the pictures of the mud mess are some photos of the first snow of the season. I was lucky enough to be up there all by my self for a couple days and woke up one morning to this little tease of winter snow. I’m very excited to see how much we get this year…one year there was 7 feet…three on one night!!!!
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