破旧的小屋 The Old Cabin

Some people travel to beaches or amusement parks for recreation or relaxation, but my husband and I much prefer spending time in a cabin in the woods. If a cabin opportunity comes along and we are free to go....we will do it!

Many years ago, my father hunted deer in the mountains. He and a group of men stayed in a cabin at night and rested from the long days of hunting and tracking deer in the snow. One day, my husband and I decided to try to find this cabin and traveled several miles up to the top of a mountain. We found the secluded cabin along a ridge and thought that this would be a quiet place to rest.

No one had visited this dwelling for many years. It smelled musty, so we opened some windows to allow fresh mountain air into the cabin. We looked around. Of course, there was no electricity that far from civilization, so the kerosene lantern was lit when it got dark. As for our food, we kept it in an insulated chest on ice. Anyhow, we were grateful that there was indoor plumbing. Then we saw the first of our surprises: there were large holes chewed into the walls by some sort of wild animal. A worse surprise was finding a dead rat floating in the toilet. These unexpected findings had us wondering whether we should change our minds about staying in this cabin. Was this the only rat in the place? It was very quiet on top of that mountain and very dark when we turned off the kerosene lantern. We didn't sleep the whole night through as we were waiting for some animal to come through one of those holes in the wall! We were glad to see daylight arrive the next morning.