Pine is about an hour and 40 minutes from our house. It’s 15 miles past Payson. Pine is a small town, but it has everything we need – a couple of great restaurants, a brewery, a small grocery store, a honey stand and a lavender farm and great places to hike nearby. Plus, you can stop at larger stores like Walmart & Home Depot on your way in or drive 2o minutes if you need something. We decided to drive up to take a look at it after we dropped off our kids at their first day of school…so yeah, that was a while ago! 🙂 Our cabin is off a little dirt road, set back in some trees and when it rains (or the snow melts), there is a little stream at the front of the property. It is under 1,000 sq ft and it has 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. The one bathroom is not an ideal situation, but we have deemed this our starter cabin and we know that we will make this one bathroom beautiful and functional, so it will be just fine!
The first time we stayed at the cabin was the weekend after we closed on it. It was a weekend to remember for sure! The utilities had not been turned out yet, so we brought up multiple gallons of water to use the toilets, flashlights and lanterns to see and a cooler to hold our groceries. We decided to drive up on Friday evening and clean it before setting up our air mattresses in the living room, but by the time we got there it was dark and we had to run an extension cord to Elmon’s truck to power a lamp to see and a vacuum. We all slept in the living room since the rooms were still had furniture in them that needed to be discarded and we didn’t want to have to clean all of those rooms too in order to sleep there. We had a great time. We hiked and made sandwiches and watched the Elk from our deck. And then on our last day there, we realized that the water was turned off to the house and the breaker was off and that we would have had water and electricity the whole time. But I am so glad we had the glamping experience to look back on and laugh about! The last time we stayed there was over Labor Day weekend to celebrate my birthday and my son’s birthday. He had been begging to do demo on it, so he was so excited to start ripping up floors and tearing down paneling. I love that even before this cabin was remodeled we have great memories there.
I’m ready to show you around our new family cabin and tell you some of our plans we have and what is already under way!
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