Good things come and the other stuff passes…
What can I say I love that you love the forest and its Waldenness and love coming out to revel in the sounds of the wind, frogs and birds, no matter what the season and no matter what the weather! Book your stay and each year you never know what you are going to get weather wise. (Can you tell the weather is on my mind??)
I have honestly never been so attuned to what the weather is going to be like since having land and a country place to steward. It's like you end up feeling the weather when it is too dry and and there's a fire ban and folks cannot have outdoor fires (last year) or when mother nature just seems to want to rain all the time and the land is just not drying out (this year).
It is the end of June and ok ok for maybe some other reasons you know things get busy with projects yes its true, I haven't been back on the trail since early spring when there was still snow on the ground in early May and it was just starting to melt and the permafrost that underlays the boreal forest of most of the prairies/shield hadn't melted yet.
So I am thinking about the shed cabin I was building as a meditation spot for winter, and the trail back on the land, both of which have been flooded out. Good thing I think you can now get around the north side of the pond cabin pond where the little bridge is but you will need rubber boots to walk through some water (the pond actually that high this year).
This is where the words of your spiritual guidance come in handy for me the words of the Buddha and the dharma that life is impermanent is so ridiculously helpful every day, because I know if it is flooded then it will pass. It will dry up. The water will go down. That I haven't been able to work on the trails because of how wet it is will pass. That I haven't been able to work on the new meditation shed cabin because it is sitting in a field of water will pass.
I also know good things come after years of work like the DOME! Been studyin' the work of Buckminster Fuller for years, and Lloyd Kahn, and wondering what kind of dome we would have on the land. And there it is, thanks to many friends it's finally up. Go in there any time you would like and hang out in the forest bug free and outdoors and take in all of nature's sounds. Take in the phyto chems of the spruce and aspen to help your parasympathetic nervous system and bring that cortisol down. And test your sense being outside and relaxing in all the sound sof the forest, day or night.
I have a new project to explore in the future and that is the cabin water system, everything from water filtration from the well to grey water disposal (it is such a waste for the good grey water on our 80 acres to go into a monthly septic truck instead of into the land and help the ecosystem - as long as its eco friendly soaps and not high in phosphorous, it's not dangerous to the ecosystem as might be thought).
That's all, if you are coming this summer and loving that you will get to experience the DOME and everything we do to provide a space to experience mother nature in solitude out in the Forest.
Cheers,
Michael
I might be at the prospector tent from time to time and like I always say please check it out if I'm not there or say hello if I am, I try and let you know if I am around :)
oh p.s. I picked up a Bell Tent it's by the cabin, set it up for one of our groups and it's pretty sweet take a peak inside. Hopefully next winter it might be back on the land in a hidden far back location so I can get in some back country camping.