Tale of an Outhouse

An early morning call in mid-August from Julie, our cabin partner, alerted us to the fact that a tree had fallen on our northwoods cabin's outhouse. The good news was that she was not in it.

Julie's photo on the morning the tree fell.

View from the cabin. It was a BIG tree.

The bad news was that it was totally destroyed and with it my "Read Anywhere" poster signed by Nicole Hollander. 

What you can't see are the thousands of shards of glass that we are still finding.

We did some schedule rearranging and managed to go up the two following weekends to work on rebuilding. Julie helped and managed most of the food. It was like old times when we first had the cabin and every trip was a project weekend with fine food to keep us going.

We'll be set for firewood next winter.

Neighbor Rob and his powerful chain saw helped with removing the tree. The guys at Builder's Service in Elcho couldn't have been more helpful. The truck arrived with our delivery of supplies almost before we could get back to the cabin.

Jim actually found the original plans that we used more than 20 years ago and we were able to rebuild on the original base. The plexiglass ceiling was a must. 

We made a few minor changes, but it's back to being the best outhouse around.

I believe it's also the last outhouse that I will build. 

Some might think too much blue: outhouse, shed, cabin and new car!