Comments on: Photo Challenge http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Baino http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Baino Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:01:53 +0000 http://yukonchatterbug.com/?p=462#comment-513 Gorgeous place. So green and lush. Must put Canada on the travel map. Gorgeous place. So green and lush. Must put Canada on the travel map.

]]> By: Carole http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Carole Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:11:24 +0000 http://yukonchatterbug.com/?p=462#comment-512 Cortes, your cabin sounds (and looks) like a dream. The cabin shown above is in northern Ontario, though there are many similar ones here in the Yukon. Someday...someday...sigh! Cortes & DBM: The toilet discussion reminds me of a few friends here who use outhouses. At 40 below, even a thick piece of styrofoam doesn't cut it. You're lucky if you don't have yellow icicles dangling from the nether regions by the time you're done your business. Cortes, your cabin sounds (and looks) like a dream. The cabin shown above is in northern Ontario, though there are many similar ones here in the Yukon.
Someday…someday…sigh!
Cortes & DBM: The toilet discussion reminds me of a few friends here who use outhouses. At 40 below, even a thick piece of styrofoam doesn’t cut it. You’re lucky if you don’t have yellow icicles dangling from the nether regions by the time you’re done your business.

]]> By: Don't Bug Me! http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Don't Bug Me! Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:46:19 +0000 http://yukonchatterbug.com/?p=462#comment-511 Love the photo! I really must head up north sometime soon. As for Cortes' composting toilet, well, I have certainly seen way worse when it comes to holes in the ground, but I am still refusing to let Mr. DBM have one in my house. Love the photo! I really must head up north sometime soon.
As for Cortes’ composting toilet, well, I have certainly seen way worse when it comes to holes in the ground, but I am still refusing to let Mr. DBM have one in my house.

]]> By: Cortes http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Cortes Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:15:41 +0000 http://yukonchatterbug.com/?p=462#comment-510 Carol Yes, that is the cabin. We built it ourselves, with some local help of course, using mostly Island materials. It wasn't easy, but what a thrill! Only about 400 square feet plus the sleeping loft, with a wood stove, electricity, telephone (no one really had the number), then dug a well and built a pump house. We had the required composting toilet (you could ask DBM what she thought of that, I haven't had the nerve to do so) and an outdoor shower. From the front deck we can see the Straight of Georgia, eagles, hummingbirds, and a great expanse of solitude and silence. From what I see in your pictures, you enjoy much the same. That is what makes it so special. Carol

Yes, that is the cabin. We built it ourselves, with some local help of course, using mostly Island materials. It wasn’t easy, but what a thrill! Only about 400 square feet plus the sleeping loft, with a wood stove, electricity, telephone (no one really had the number), then dug a well and built a pump house. We had the required composting toilet (you could ask DBM what she thought of that, I haven’t had the nerve to do so) and an outdoor shower. From the front deck we can
see the Straight of Georgia, eagles, hummingbirds, and a great expanse of solitude and silence.

From what I see in your pictures, you enjoy much the same. That is what makes it so special.

]]> By: Cortes http://yukonchatterbug.com/2009/02/07/photo-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Cortes Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:52:32 +0000 http://yukonchatterbug.com/?p=462#comment-509 What a fabulous location. Wonderful pictures, and they bring back memories of my cabin on Cortes Island. I love pictures of cabins with a large BBQ on the front deck, shows that the residents have their priorities straight. What a fabulous location. Wonderful pictures, and they bring back memories of my cabin on Cortes Island. I love pictures of cabins with a large BBQ on the front deck, shows that the residents have their priorities straight.

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