This is Cabin Living Redux

For some perspective on the contents of this blog post, please click on the link in the title prior to reading.

Not really "cabin living".

Picture cabin living.  What images are in your mind?  Now picture southern living.  What images come to mind?  If you are like the thousands of subscribers to Cabin Life Magazine, or Southern Living Magazine,  a certain genteel image is formulated when you think about the lifestyle.  Why, the very name of my blog is meant to instill a certain aura of idyllic living into your psyche.

The reality, of course, deviates somewhat from the promise.  A more appropriate title for these lifestyle magazines would incorporate the word "estate".   This would serve to better illustrate the content found within and to more accurately reflect the zeitgeist of the targeted demographic.  In addition to owning a cabin in the woods I have logged extensive miles on the blue highways of all fifty states and the general consensus among my fellow woodland dwellers seems to be that; One, I better not bring this to the dump because I might need it one day, and two, I need to cover it with a blue tarp.

This is cabin living.

This is cabin living.

This is cabin living.

And this is southern living.....