A fire that roared, a Father's Day steak dinner, and 180 people at the open house

And the cement had to finish off something. He says, dry up or whatever. how after three weeks we went and made a fire in the fireplace. And he had such a good, he made it so good that we had the door open and like I say, we made this fire, and rooved up with the flames and the noise, up the chimney.

It had such a draw. So we ran outside to see if we could shut it off a little, the fireplace part of it, the front part. So he found a piece of iron, and he quickly put it there, and it stopped the roar in the chimney.

So it's already six years since we've got the fireplace and the cabin, and we still got that iron there. So when we do make a fire in there, it will not roar or two, but you'll burn nice. It heats up the cabin in about five minutes, nice, so it's very pleasant, but we didn't have too many fires in.

there. The top of all, show my appreciation to my husband for doing it all. Nobody helped him to do nothing on it. He'd on all the nailing and all the fixings and measurings and everything. So the first Father's Day come around the 15th of June, and I figured out at the head, and I made fresh rye bread on Saturday, Sunday was the Father's Day.

And just the way he likes it, and I brought some steak there and onions and a big iron kettle that I know would heat up to nice and warm. I had the papers and the wood and everything ready in the fireplace and table set and all that.

So when we come from church instead of staying home, I told him, I says, I would like him to take that box when I had the steak in and the bread and all that to carry up. I says, put that in a car and we'll go over there.

and I bought him a mystery paperback because he likes that sort of the elderly queen. I remember that well. And I told him, now you sit on this here couch and relax while I fix up the dinner. So in about 20 minutes, I had the stakes done.

I slit the fire first in that. Before I knew it, we had the steaks done, and his ripe, the way he liked it. I steamed it above the meat, and we had a lot. dinner. And I said, well, this is the Father's Day dinner instead of going out, you know, in a restaurant like we usually did.

We had it up there and we really enjoyed it. So I had it once or twice since I had Father's Day dinner there for him. That's the best I could do for. And then now I listen to him what he tells me to do.

I do and all that to just to show him that I really appreciate it. So for years, five, six years, I went to the cabin any time I felt like it. Of course, my health don't let me go there too often now.

The first two, three years, I went there quite often, maybe two, three times a day, two, three times a week. But lately, I'm glad I get there in summertime once a week on Sunday afternoon. And that, so I kind of like it.

Oh, yes, and when I was 65 years old, my grandchildren and, of course, my daughter -in -law's met, they made a kind of an opening party or whatever you would call it. They invited the neighbors and all that to come, and we had lots of good food to eat and drink.

And folks come, and they stayed a little while, and then they left, did somebody else come? Open house, I guess they called it. Well, anyhow, I had 180 people come that afternoon. and it was very gratifying that they all liked the cabin, my husband made for me.

So that's about all I can tell about the cabin, except I love it. I've got lots of antiques in there and lots of little trinkets that folks brings me and children give me, you know, on the shelves. He made me beautiful shells in there, mahogany colored, and he made different kind of shelves, and he made a kind of like a cupboard, real nice.

And then he, oh, and I moved my mother's old -fashioned round table in there, and I fixed it up real nice, too. And then he made me two beautiful benches. Everybody admires them. He really made it nice. He says, well, we can get a lot of ladies over here, so they got someplace to sit, so we used them quite a bit and all that.

And it is still nice and I just love it yet always I always remember my cabin and I take a lot of people there they ask to see it so that's about all for this time