Avocation and Vocation

Most of our lives we spend working, and in a bit a of a sad sense, it's worth admitting it and facing it instead of deluding oneself through the journey on your way to some elusive destination. Most of us buy nice shoes that we wear in the 10% or less of the time available after work, commute, and too-tired-from-work hours. What we really should do is buy the best shoes (or work boots) for when we work. I'm reminded of a poem by Robert Frost "Two tramps in Mud Time," and the line: "making your avocation your vocation--" a synthesizing of life, repose and work, hobby and money-maker. This whole plan is an attempt at something like that. It'd be much easier and safer financially to build a traditional cabin rental by the water, something my folks have done successfully over the last fifteen years, but we wanted to make the process itself satisfying, and not just the outcome. SO here it is, an here we are, enjoying the blossoming, not just flowering.

The interior will be sheetrocked and clean, with rustic blended in, a balance my sister-in-law Marsha, as the lead designer, is trying to find. The back wall of this bedroom unit will be painted pine shiplap boards, locally harvested and milled.

The exterior is the same material, but stained and vertically sheathed. Here;s the first window going in permanently. Five are fixed and one will be, through some ingenuity and persistence, openable to create a cross current in conjunction with the screen door.

Tada! Notice the thumbs up reflection and the beautiful view...almost like it's not work.