Really Roughing It.

Our grandson Kyle

In the early days of building our camp on Cary Lake, we had to be brave. Well, we didn't HAVE to be brave. Mom invited us to stay at her place next door! But we CHOSE to experience life by making it a bit more difficult to enjoy our modern conveniences. This is a pictorial story of us staying at the camp in sub-freezing weather. That is, two of our grandsons and ourselves.

This is our Lakeside home when it had NO electricity, NO running water, NO interior walls or partitions, NO cooking facilities, NO beds.

Timothy and Kyle went with us in November night of 2011 to help work on this family project and I am sure they have some memories of how things were. And now YOU can get an idea!

Wayne with an air mattress

We had a chair that Brian gave us, so that was one comfort of home away from home! We had a battery operated light, so with that light on, we prepare for a cold one. We had lots of warm bedding, a sleeping bag borrowed from Jonathan, and some air mattresses to protect our bones and muscles and keep us ready to work the next day.

With no cooking facilities, we ate cookies before bed time! And the falling temperatures forced us into our cocoons ASAP!! We knew that if things became too difficult, we could always vacate our place and use Mom's couch and spare beds. But we DID IT!  The first sound I heard next morning was our door closing quietly. I looked out the window to see two boys heading to Gram's. I think they weren't about to use the alternative bathroom facilities!

Kyle fell asleep quickly and Timothy kept WARM! 

It was definitely an adventure and we had fun.