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The Cabin

We stopped by the cabin today to take a few photos for the insurance company. There is work going on, so it’s not looking its best and of course the grass isn’t green this time of year. But the big thing shown in this photo are the tops of the septic system tanks that have been installed. After literally 50 years, the cabin finally has plumbing and electricity. When this was taken, the well hadn’t been hooked up yet and not all the wiring was done, but since then it has been and the cabin has heat, as well as water.

The Cabin

Cathy, our friend Yvette, and I drove up to Pennsylvania today. We visited the land (commonly called “the farm” by our family, but not really a farm in any meaningful sense). We built the cabin in the mid 1970s and it’s been without any utilities until recently. The plumbing went in and there is now a septic system. Putting in everything related to that required a fair amount of digging so the ground was pretty chewed up. Dorothy and Jeff have spread straw on the bare dirt (a.k.a. mud) so it’s not as bad as it could be. Dorothy also has a few large bags of grass seed that will go down shortly. In this photo you can see the three concrete caps for the septic tank and associated parts. We’ll plant a garden around them and put large planters on top of them so they won’t be quite so obvious, eventually.