Exactly one week ago I saw ice forming. The geese and ducks had left the lake. I was expecting completion of lake ice by this week. Well, it didn't happen. Mother Nature won again. She always does, I should have known better. The Canada geese arrived back this morning. I wonder where they went for one week.
Then I looked back and realized the ice didn't get fully formed and become "safe for travel" until mid-January! Silly me.
Once in a while someone says to me, "Why don't you just sell the cabin and move to someplace warmer?" (or easier to keep, or where you can have a washer, or where you don't have to worry about power losses, or closer to town)
I really can't explain it any better than to say my roots are here. The cabin is my home. I belong here. It is my energy source. The cabin vibrations nourish my soul. To abandon it would be forsaking myself. It is my protector. It is my karma, my destiny and I like it here.