tajMELhall ~

Today was the big reassembly project and  big move of the hunting shack, aka. mini cabin, Mom's hunting shack, aka. The tajMELhall.

The guys had already made a trip out to the woods with the tajMELhall loaded on the trailer behind the four wheeler and in the back of the pick up truck.  They didn't wait on me ~ because I was busy in the kitchen canning pickled beets.  I'm such a domestic diva.

I walked out later to see how things were progressing. Got your hikers on?  Come along ~

This is the trail that I'll be walking every day in November during the deer/rifle season to get to my hunting stand.

It's a nice trail ... actually it's an old road bed ... the old old OLD state highway 70 ... back before the days of black topped highways.  This is the road that the horse and buggy and model T's used.  It runs between my Mom's place and mine. 

Going up a little grade here.  Oh I just love walking through these woods.  My sisters and I put on a lot of miles with the horses through these trails when we were kids.

You can't tell by the picture; but this is the spot that we called the "maples" or "by the big pine" - which is off to the left.  Then it became the intersection where you'd turn to the south to head to Mom's shack (my mother's) but is now MY hunting shack that we'll be heading to - the tajMELhall.  hehe ... how do you like the name?

Now we're walking south.  We were going east ... but you knew that ~ right?

Not much further...  I see the four wheeler parked beside the spot where the old stand once stood.

There it is ~  the tajMELhall ... sitting in all it's glory ... partially assembled ... waiting on it's completion and the month of November to roll along so I can take up residency. 

It looks so much smaller out in the woods than it did when it was being assembled in the garage.

The floor is laid on blocks... the walls are being reassembled ...

I'm so fortunate to have such a loving hubby and son who are making this for me :)

The roof is on ...

Tomorrow ... the windows will be put in and the curtains will be hung. 

Even if I don't see a deer during hunting season ... at least I'm going to have a nice snug building to hunker down in with my camera whenever the mood hits me.  I plan on using the tajMELhall for bird watching and any other critter watching too. It's my little get-away.

If you can't find me ... that's where I'll be.

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel