For the last couple of years, my best buddy, Lynn, and I have been building a dream. Where it is headed neither of us knows but we do have a beginning, mainly through Lynn’s ingenuity. Sitting on the top of some beautiful acreage owned by Lynn and her husband, stands a movable shepherd’s hut permanently placed on the frame of an old hay wagon. The hut is positioned with a view that is remarkable. The Catskills loom to the front and the Adirondacks rise to the hind side. My best doggie friend, Lena Mai and I paid a visit in preparation for summer the other day. The hut is furnished with a very comfortable futon, a chair and small table, and a kite to fly….the lighting is a gas lamp and flashlights and there is always lots of reading material…picnic spots abound and a huge grill is just a skip away. . As you can see, we found it ready for guests! Another hut has just been finished and is awaiting its placement somewhere equally inviting. They are both awaiting guests – we’re hoping writers and artists looking for a peaceful setting in which they might create imaginary lives. We will eventually have a cook wagon and then the fun will really begin!
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This is sooooooo cool. Years ago I visited the New Hampshire
home of August St. Gaudins, and he had designed a similar writers hut, he called it, that sat on rails and could be moved to follow the sun. Ever since then, this kind of mobile building had been snagged in my memory/dreams. What a wonderful opportunity to revisit nature, even as viewed by one of our greatest sculptors!
We will welcome your visit to the huts – our huts don’t follow the sun but I know that you will bring the sun with you – you can paint your wonderul watercolors, knit your magnificent shawls, drink rose, relax – it is all there for the doing –
This really is sooooooo cool.
When can we expect you?
We arrive late on the 28th. Our plans are up in the air. At a party, a group decided to join us in NY over the 4th. Now we are trying to figure out who is showing up and who just let the wine talk. We are heading back home on the 6th of July. Are you in town any of those days? We have weddings three and four of the summer this weekend and have attended a class reunion in Milwaukee as well. My class and Ellen had the most fun. We are coming to NY to rest!
We will be here ’til the 1st – and you really want to rest? We will be up in the huts for the 4th celebration – sorry you can’t join us –
Judie, this looks like the beginning of a very popular retreat, providing each hut is in walking distance of the Judie Chaote food wagon…
enjoy the 4th, Biffy
Biffy – The temporary food wagon will be cooking this summer with me at the stove – we already have some takers – if the rain stops, we will be cooking straight from the garden –