Minimum Viable Cabin

My neighbors are amazing. I won the benevolent & hilarious neighbor lottery. Kevin and Darlene have eclipsed my previous neighbor expectations. You know that quote about "Good fences make good neighbors" from Robert Frost? No? If you're not a Robert Frost nut, do you even New England, bro? Please at least go read this poem, "Mending Wall"   so you can superciliously "well actually" someone the next time they mis-represent the quote about good fences and good neighbors. A pedantic aside, please humor me here. We'll get back to Kevin & Darlene in a minute. Like many Frost quotes, people often quote this in complete misunderstanding of the actual point of his poem. In "Mending Wall," Frost describes the annual repair of the stone walls separating his land from that of his neighbor, and how he sometimes questions his neighbor about whether the wall is even needed. "My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his

  We hammered some stakes in the ground to show where the house roughly will be.

  Uncommunicative camper guy eventually came through! A friend of the original friend (friend-2-removed) found a friend (3-removed) who had a camper and wanted to sell it. So after a few shady handshakes and payoffs and other transactions I'd rather not get into, I have a camper. I've named her Babe and parked her in a partially-cleared trail at the back of the property. Her former family took great care of her, so though she's a turn-of-the-century model, there's very little wrong with her and lots of thoughtful little touches (command hooks, pots'n'pans, spare parts of various sorts). And so just in time for Independence Day, Babe is in the woods and has a fridge fulla beer. Bring on the fireworks and let's dig a foundation!