The Eco Cabin

I'll add more pictures to this title as time goes on but here's the basics about what life is like:

1.  We collect rain and use it to shower (refreshingly cold and outside) and we boil it to drink.  It is the best water I've ever tasted.

2. A single hot plate to cook on, though we did liberate a junky old toaster oven and are finding it quite useful.  We can bake a mini-lasagna in it!!

3. We have a queen bed, which takes up most of the room in the cabin itself but it is a lovely one (Thor is kind of a bed-hog but he'll tell you that it's me!) with a mosquito net and caribbean blue sheets (how appropriate).

4.  Our bathroom is the great outdoors, an open, leafy pit on the hillside.  And despite the many, many jokes that could be made here, there is something truly fine about communing with nature in such a. . .  personal way.  Of course, I haven't had to do it in a downpour, yet. . . .

5. We have a hammock that Thor hung in the middle of the room.  You can get your nap on in it like nobody's business.

6.  We have a variety of visiting friends-- from little cockroaches to a rainbow of lizards and geckos that show their disdain for us by performing a few furious pushups and puffing out their neck sacks. I've even named one "Chocolate Lovin'" for his copious mating skills.  (Note-- this is not Chocolate Lovin'.  He's a much studlier lizard, by far.)

7.  We spend a lot of time looking at the mountains that hug our little house, protecting us.  And, at night, they make an excellent frame for a dark, clear sky full of more stars then I'v ever seen before. It is truly lovely. The jungle that blankets these mountains is full of ruins, pieces of 200 year old pottery and hand tools and the most amazing collection of trees and vines.  In the picture below, we captured the light coming through the hollows in a tree at sundown.  See if you can find a face in the light somewhere. . . .