Celebrating our 4th Cabinversary

It’s hard to believe that we have owned our sweet cabin in the small hamlet of Pine for four years!

We have totally immersed ourselves into the life of our little village, and have explored miles and miles surrounding Tonto, Coconino, and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. We have lived here every spring, summer, and fall starting in 2021, after we fell in love with this mountain paradise when we spent a week here celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.

When we arrive early each spring we get to watch the leaves budding out on the mountain oak trees, the Mama elk heavy in the final weeks of their pregnancies, and the spring blossoms. As spring flows into summer the desert mountains are covered with vibrant wild flowers and prickly pear cacti blossoms. And best of all, the Mama elk and Coues deer bring their new babies out of the forests to show their little darlings to the world. Then as fall arrives the oak leaves turn bright orange, red, and gold….and as a special treat, the big Daddy elk joins mama and their half grown babies. 

When we see the big Daddy elk with his enormous rack, we know that in another month or two the temperatures will drop.  We’ll no longer be comfortable in the afternoons sitting on our porch listening to the wind in the tall pine trees and the birds singing to us, while we watch the squirrels scurrying around collecting their winter store of food.  We will not be able to sit outside and watch the elk and deer parade down the dirt road and munching on grass beneath our deck.  Then it will be time for us to migrate south to our home in Mesa where it is warm all winter long.

But the cold winter weather is still a few months away.

Today on our 4th Cabinversary, it was beautifully warm and we spent several blissful hours immersed in nature….watching our rustic little world from our front deck.  We celebrated four years of loving and  living at our glorious mountain cabin! 

Here we are dancing on our front deck with Jane Morgan singing her 1950’s song, “Happy Anniversary,” to us.

We ate our Cabinversary dinner in bed….homemade yummy nachos!

 

Our hearts are full of gratitude for each other, our children, grandchildren, and family…..and of course for our lovely cabin, where we have lived happily together ever after (for four years).  We are truly blessed!