Time Machine: At the Cabin

This is the one-room cabin with kitchen/bathroom addition where Sheila and I lived from June of 1972 until some time in 1976. Note:
• our 73 ragtop Blazer (the only new car we have ever owned)
• the full width screened front porch.
• the back side door to the small kitchen.
• the old pump atop the often dry well.
• the steep hill behind.
When we had the property surveyed we discovered the corner of the kitchen in this picture was not on our property! We had to buy a half-acre of the neighbor's land so we could control our own well and back door! 

Our friend Mike Bock took these pictures in March 1973. Sheila and I are sitting by the creek in our front "yard" below our log cabin. 
Look at that gorgeous woman I was/am privileged to come home to every day!
Mama was right, I should have cut my hair. And sideburns.

Another shot by Mike Bock in March 1973.

Sheila at the table. The window looks into the add-on kitchen. The curtains were on hinged arms that would swing around to cover the windows. No ceiling at all. Pretty pine paneling.

Another book jacket shot. Notice the bricks-and-boards bookcases in the background. They were a staple of our furnishings for many years

Pensive Sheila.

Book jacket shot number one.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hurt? Bitter? Aggravated? Pensive? Trying not to laugh? I'm not sure.

The girl I married.

I actually don't think we intended to dress alike that day. Other than wearing red to Rome High games I don't remember ever trying to match.

Young love.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd

Awww, and matching plaid shirts too. Was this in W VA?

Terrell Shaw
Nope, Greater Booger Hollow, off Jim Shack Rd on Lake Creek.

Jane Baird Lathem
Wuz you just about to kiss her full on the mouth????

Terrell Shaw
I'd probably just finished planting one on her and was gettin' ready for a reprise. We were lip-locked more often than not that year. Ahhhh. Young love.
'Course I still kiss on her all she'll put up with. Luckily her eyesight has continued to decline.

We definitely could strike a counter-culture pose.

I wish I had better pics of the interior of the cabin. The fireplace was very nice. The place burned down about ten years ago or so.

The stream was obviously up when this pic was made in March 1973. Looking downstream on Lake Creek from our cabin.

 

Another pic of Mike Bock sitting at our round oak table in the cabin and another good book jacket shot.

I took this pic of Mike Bock sitting at our round oak table in the cabin. We were experimenting with light. A good book jacket shot, don't you think?