| Our family owns a cabin in Angelica NY. It's a beautiful quaint little place with a "front room" , kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a "basement bathroom" (lol). For those of you who know the place you know what I mean about the "bathroom"!! There is an old outhouse but some of the ladies that visit there needed something a little more modern so a toilet was installed in the basement that we flush using a bucket with rain water collected in a huge drum next to the toilet! (lol)There is no electricity. We can either use a generator or power lights from a marine battery.There are no phones but with cell phones we at least have a connection to the outside world now! (lol) There is no running water but there is a spring fed well on the property, one of the old fashioned kind that you have to prime and pump (lol). The kitchen is outfitted with an antique propane stove and frig ( that are seldom used, we store our food in coolers and mostly cook on the outdoor grill) a few cabinets and a dbbl bowl sink! To do dishes and wash up we pump well water in buckets, drag that in and boil the water on the propane stove. We heat the cabin using the old coal "octopus" furnace in the basement that we now burn wood in instead of coal. The cabin sits on 110 acres of land with a gully and stream and has, across the road 3 conservation "ponds" that are stocked with fish.There is plenty of wildlife there for the photojournalist or the avid hunter. It is a quiet, relaxing place to go to for a weekend or a week. I have many wonderful memories of times spent there and wish I could go there more often!! |
