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trollbridge
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# Posted: 15 Jan 2012 15:02
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So I know there have been a handful of different things we have forgot...like the keys to the cabin,forcing us to have to break-in. Twice!
What have you forgot and what did you do about it?
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SE Ohio
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# Posted: 15 Jan 2012 15:47
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I've forgotten quite a few food items, remedied by a 20 minute drive to the town grocery. Been to the town hardware store a few times, too. Most recently, I was distracted while packing my clothes bag, and ended up wearing the same jeans for several days (and it showed!)
The worst I've ever forgotten (again by distraction) had to do with a weeklong canoe trip. Pushed off the bank into the river, and realized the tent was at home, 5 hours drive away and the outfitter had just driven off. Had to hitchhike to the outfitters, then drive to a store, about 3 hours elapsed while my wife and kids waited...
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Martian
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# Posted: 15 Jan 2012 17:26
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Quoting: SE Ohio The worst I've ever forgotten (again by distraction) had to do with a weeklong canoe trip. Pushed off the bank into the river, and realized the tent was at home, 5 hours drive away and the outfitter had just driven off. Had to hitchhike to the outfitters, then drive to a store, about 3 hours elapsed while my wife and kids waited...
Did something similiar many years ago. Decided to canoe from Havasu City down the Colorado to Yuma with 3 of my Marine buddies. We loaded our two canoes and shovered off. After a few hours of easy travel, it was discovered we had forgotten to get the water; plenty of beer, but no water. It was two days of drinking melted ice before we reached a fishcamp where we could get drinking water.
Life's an adventure!
Tom
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 15 Jan 2012 17:57 - Edited by: trollbridge
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I am notorious for forgetting cheese for some reason...which isn't a big deal to me but everybody else always wants cheese on their salami sandwiches so they're unhappy.
The weekend we went up north to build on our "mudroom" we forgot the nail gun. Should have been able to deal with it but for some reason everything went wrong that weekend leaving us feeling very tired and frustrated!
SE Ohio and Martian...our adventures are nothing like yours!!!! Both those scenarios would not be good at the time but they make great memories!!
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Bzzzzzt
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 17:11
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The last time we went to our cabin in 2011 we decided we needed to launder the sheets and blankets we keep down there as they were getting a little grody. Well, when I washed them I put all of the blankets and quilts in this big plastic container we keep them in but apparently I neglected to put the sheets in it. I put them in the sheet place here at the house. We had enough quilts and stuff to stay warm down there, but it was a little weird sleeping ON a blanket UNDER quilts.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 20:24 - Edited by: trollbridge
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Bzzzzzzt...I think that is one too many z's...oh well. I've done that too...left all the bedding at home.
Once we forgot the generator at home...that wasn't good and one time we forgot it at the cabin...left it just sitting there on the side of the cabin...don't think we'll make that mistake again!!! Luckily it was still there. DUH!
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Bzzzzzt
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 20:29
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LOL Luckily for us there's a Wal Mart 11 miles away from our cabin so almost anything we forget is just a few dollars away.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 20:36 - Edited by: trollbridge
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Same for us about 20 minutes and rarely have we spent a weekend that we haven't had to go...usually it's for more building supplies at Menards though! and then while we are there we often rent a movie at the Red Box and sometimes grab a bite to eat if we are dead tired from working all day. We are quite the sight on those days! LOL!
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Montanan
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 23:40
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Great stories! I always forget the darn condiments (i.e. mustard, ketchup, mayo, salad dressings, etc.) I've started collecting the little packets from wherever I go and keeping them in a ziploc bag in the car- to be stashed at the cabin for emergencies!
Once I forgot to bring a bra, but that might be too much information. ;o)
We are about an hour from a city with "real" amenities (i.e. gas, supermarket, hardware store.) There were definitely times during the construction that we lost a whole day because we had to run to "town." There is a little general store about 1/2 mile from our cabin that has been a real savior for things like those condiments...and beer. But it has weird operating hours- like 3 days a week and closed before 6:00 pm. It is actually called "The INconvenience Store." I kid you not.
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Icebear
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# Posted: 16 Jan 2012 23:43
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I've been building my cabin this summer and have forgotten the nail gun a few times... Very annoying to say the least.
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bobrok
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:34
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I "forgot" to test a rental air nailer before I went up to put down a floor. The compressor worked just fine but the spring loaded feed on the gun was, shall we say, missing. This ended up costing me a half day's drive to the nearest place locally where one was available. The great part of this is that when they heard my sob story they didn't even need a deposit for the gun! This episode has gone a long way towards restoring my faith in humankind. Made a tough experience into a more pleasant one and now I know where I would go the next time I needed something.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:12 - Edited by: trollbridge
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Quoting: Montanan Once I forgot to bring a bra, but that might be too much information. ;o)
I'm sure your husband thought that was a bonus, if he's like mine! LOL!Quoting: Icebear forgotten the nail gun a few times... Very annoying to say the least.
Quoting: bobrok I "forgot" to test a rental air nailer before I went up to put down a floor. The compressor worked just fine but the spring loaded feed on the gun was, shall we say, missing.
Yep...I'm telling you, the weekend we forgot ours it completely wrecked our momentum. We kept thinking about how we should be so much farther. Then being bummed out and distracted would make us screw something else up. It was not fun and luckily our kids were at home so they didn't have to see or hear their parents throwing hissy fits. LOL!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:18
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Quoting: Montanan It is actually called "The INconvenience Store."
I hear ya...we have one like that too not too far away...but terrible hours!
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Just
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 13:21
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old guy hear ,, your medication ,, can realy ruin a weekend if you don't make it !!!!!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 13:23
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Quoting: Just old guy hear ,, your medication ,, can realy ruin a weekend if you don't make it !!!!
Ha ha...I guess that wouldn't be good now would it????
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 13:39
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So how many times have ya'll drove away and thought "did I lock that door?" We've gone back so many times...and they are always locked. Peace of mind though, right?
The one time we apparently didn't question ourselves we had a friend who stopped by while he was up that way and he called us and said "yeah...I just let myself in!" Lol. The side door was unlocked.
We work so hard when we are there and then get so rushed to clean up and get home before too late that we apparently are quite distracted!!!
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bobrok
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 21:19
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Had to return once because I left my laptop. Had to snowmobile back in once because I left my cell phone. Fortunately we were only to the main road on both occassions so only a mile or so return.
I find myself running through a mental checklist when we leave from either home or camp as I am driving down the road. Once was so mentally encumbered as we left home to go to camp that we left our garage door open at home. Our neighbors were right on top of things, though, and called to let us know they had closed it for us. Bless them!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 21:49
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The problem we have currently is that there is soooo much to bring from home and soooo much to take back home with us. So many building supplies and tools and generator and food and clothes-it is crazy! Some day it will all be so easy-grab some clothes and some food and the generator and go. No loaded trailer or van full! lol!
and I always try to remember what we are getting low on at the cabin (like paper plates) but by the time we go back up again I can't remember what we were short of and end up with tons of cups and no plates or whatever. Know what I mean?
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Montanagirl
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 22:06 - Edited by: Montanagirl
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I have gone back to make sure the stover burner (which heats our kettle, which is our hot water source) is off as well as the coffee maker and electric heater. . . .but it's only 25 minutes . . . not too bad. . .
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Montanagirl
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 22:16 - Edited by: Montanagirl
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Montanan I totally get that! I've started to keep a checklist (paper pad with magnet strip that attaches on the fridge) . . . keep notes of what we need.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 22:22
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Quoting: Montanagirl .but it's only 25 minutes
Wow...now that would be convenient! Welcome BTW...your cabin is really cute and right on a lake...very nice :)
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Montanagirl
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 22:42 - Edited by: Montanagirl
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many thanks . . . funny that my grandpa "had the vision" back in 1926! Sometimes I think we are roughing it (out house and all) . . .then I think "what the heck did my grandpa and grandma do back in 1926??" (living "in town" in NW Montana in 1926 had to be hard, much less a "cabin" 25 miles out in the sticks?? ) Montana winters . . no electric . . . wood stove . . .same outhouse . . .just like what everyone here is now doing . . .living off the grid!) LOL . . . they were true pioneers. . . :) I am blessed to inheirit such a treasure . . .I have learned that simple is better . . . no running water = no frozen pipes = no floods. . . etc. . . love this community on this website!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2012 23:09
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I love the simplicity of our cabin too...only occasionally have I wished for electricity or running hot water. I like not having an electric bill...one at home is enough!!!
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nicalisa
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 20:54
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:) Ok, so we all have a purpose and job in our families. My job is the project manager, list maker, packer, shopper and general.
My boys (hubby included) are the muscle, the builders, the carriers, and the fixers.
Our place is off shore, water access only. So we have much stored there, and locked in sheds, but the food always has to go back and forth.
One weekend I had everything packed up and like a good project manager had a list and checked it twice. The cooler however was very heavy with those blocks of ice so I didn't drag it into the foyer.
My husband and boys loaded the car and didn't think to look in the kitchen.
So we drove the 1 hour to the ferry. Took the 45 minute ferry ride. Drove the 1.5 hours up the sunshine coast. loaded everything out of the car onto the dock and into the watertaxi. listened to my explitatives for 5 minutes, poor water taxi driver. Arranged a second trip out for my husband. Myself and the boys went up the inlet, unloaded the taxi, and walked up to the cabin. The next taxi dropped off my husband and the food.....we don't talk about that much:) but the food is never forgotten:)
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 21:16
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Too, too funny!!!!!! And it wasn't like you could just drive 20 minutes to town and grab more food! Lol!
That would have been a good time to be a fly on the wall :)
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nicalisa
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2012 22:17
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I am sure that 3 minutes into my tirade my husband also wished he were a fly or anything else on a wall other than my dear wonderful husband. I never give him grief over this as my list of grief needing activities (example of the moving van on the barge comes to mind) are also endless.
Part of this adventure has been learning to love, celebrate and accept our differences, success, and wish we could do overs.
To be honest building this little dream has made me realize I could never love someones (including the resourceful little boys:) more. My dream was to build a cabin, but it has come to mean so much more than 2x4s and cedar.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:05
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I hear ya girl!!!!! We've had our share of fiascos too...but in the end we are doing it... somehow,,, amazingly together and that's all that really matters!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:05
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That could be a whole thread on it's own...building fiascos!
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lakegeorge
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:26
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I forget stuff on a regular basis, but theres a small town about 10 min away so we either get some extra supplies there or make do untill next time.
I am however notorious for forgetting to put the plug in my boat while @ the lake. Its a terrible feeling.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:38 - Edited by: trollbridge
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glug,glug...glug...we're sinking!!!!!!!!!!!!
welcome to you too btw!
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