We own the little A-Frame at the tip of Preacher's Point that many
say is their landmark so they don't get lost on the lake.
Jim says we should put walls under it instead of just living in an
attic.
The truth is we call it "Tiny Perfect" and love it -- this
is our idea of what cottaging is all about!
We can jump off the corner of our deck (a 15 foot drop in the late
summer) into 10 feet of water. We get the full glory of endless
brilliant sunsets. We get the fresh western breezes off the
water. This is heaven.
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We are (left to right)...
Stephanie, Chris, Rachel, Andrew, Dave, Marguerite
(with our friends Frank and Tiiu from Canmore, Alberta)
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The Stairs
The new road presented a huge problem for us. Our spur road
ended at the top of our 60 foot cliff. The only access from the
road down to our cottage was via a steep slope ending in an extension
ladder. Try carrying a generator down that!
The solution? Well, build a stairway. So we started from
the deck at the bottom, put in a landing at the first available spot up
the cliff, and built a stair up to it. Then another landing.
Then another stair. After 8 landings and nine stairs, well it took
until August 2005 but now we have 94 steps from the road down to our
cottage. We call it the "Stairway Down to
Heaven".
Of course, it also goes UP, and that's a killer.
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The Sherpa
Of course, as we got older, carrying things DOWN the stairs was
getting to be a burden, and carrying things UP the stairs was getting
impossible (unless the sons-in-laws were around). It was time to
build a freight conveyor. In honour of the guides who
tirelessly carry supplies up Kathmandu, we nicknamed it the
"Sherpa".
It can carry 400 pounds (or more) and takes one minute 15 seconds to
climb the 112 feet of rail.
The rail, as it climbs the cliff, varies in angle from 56 degrees at
the bottom to 22 degrees at the top -- a difference of 24 degrees and so
the cart is tipped forward 12 degrees at the top and back 12 degrees at
the bottom.
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Rachel and Andrew provided two Staples "That was
Easy!" buttons for top and bottom!
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The morning fog is magical, mysterious...
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...and the sunsets are spectacular.
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Winter of 2008-2009 (Pictures thanks to Boyd!)
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"Branch" across our spur road
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The docks survived another winter
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Massive ice build-up behind the cottage
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Summer of 2007...
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Rachel and Andrew
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Steph and Chris
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Marguerite and Dave
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All of us, with Tiiu and Frank
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All of us, with guests
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Late autumn, calm waters (Thanks, Boyd!)
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