Iva's Cabin

One of my favorite places to go when I was a very little girl was "Iva's Cabin," or "Iva's Lake." Of course, it really isn't her lake, it's actually Cherokee Lake in Jefferson City, but it is her cabin. It's the second cabin on this spot, the first one was struck by lightening and burned. Both built by she and her daddy and several others, this cabin has given us many weekends of fun. I am very proud to say now that it is one of my kids favorite places to go, too. They beg to go to Iva's cabin. It's not for the cable television, or the nice facilities, the private bedrooms, or the modern kitchen. It is for exactly the opposite of all that. There is no electricity. No bathroom. No kitchen. We are really roughing it. Except for the beds, cozy quilts, and roof over our heads.

This is the front of the cabin that faces the lake.

This is Iva and Elizabeth, a.k.a. Busy Beth.

Anthony, Erica, Alex, and Elizabeth are playing cards.

Many very good biscuits made by Lib and Dorothy have been rolled out on this table.

The biscuits are cooked in an old wood burning cook stove. When we go to the cabin in the summer, we don't get biscuits cause that makes the cabin way too hot.

There are three full size iron beds and a couple of twin cots. Depending on how many people are there determines whether the front porch is used as a bedroom, too.

These are the "facilities".

The days at the cabin are spent at the lake...

Playing volleyball...

Playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark... Playing badminton...

Walking to the Black Oak dock for ice cream...

And whatever else their imaginations can come up with.