Hi! Welcome to Cairn Cottage! Here, I share all about lake life ~ along with the things I like to read about, dream about, and sometimes create.
I am a wife, mom, and grandma. The hubby and I live in a cottage on a lake in the Midwest, USA. Now, you may be thinking that we named our little cottage(and my blog) after the Cairn terrier, but we own Chihuahuas, not Cairns. The name, "Cairn Cottage" comes from my hubby's love for rocks, of which he collects. Not the pretty little pebbles you find along the road, either. BIG rocks. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic word ca'rn, a term used mainly for a man-made pile (or stack) of stones.(source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn) It just seemed appropriate, since we have landscaped with many of the rocks my hubby has collected over the years.
We have been on a continual journey, as we renovate, decorate, and make this little piece of paradise our very own! Won't you join me as I share this journey in my life? God has provided in so many ways!
Cairn Cottage
I turned 60 last year. How is this possible?!
Maybe it's a good thing that my life keeps me so busy!
Cairn Cottage
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| The front (lakeside) yard area |
Some of the rocks landscaped on our property *click on pics to see posts
About Me:
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| Our raised garden, lined with rocks. |
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| Our water garden area |
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| Our biggest rock, located by the pier |
About Me:
- I officially started blogging in November of 2011, over at my first blogpage, "Christ in Clouds", which I still blog on when I can. Check it out HERE.
- I started my blog "Cairn Cottage" back in 2012, when we decided to downsize and began our search for a house on a lake. We officially made the move in August of that same year, and we never looked back.
- When we're not remodeling our small 1930's cottage, we love gardening, fishing, antique shopping, and just relaxing in our little piece of paradise!
- We also own a mid-sized camper and love to travel all over the U.S., whenever possible! I may be sharing some of those journeys on this blog page, as well.
- I'm definitely a dreamer and a creative soul. I have a wide variety of interests and hope to share many of them in this blog.(Check out my sidebar to see just a few.) I also try to have a positive outlook on things and hopefully that shines through.
Ann
“Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace” Spanish Proverb
You have the CUTEST place! I lived in England about an hour from the Scottish border for a total of 3 years of my life, so I'm very familiar with cairns. We often used the term to indicate the piles of stones people placed at the top of fells (mountains) in northern England. Each hiker would place a new stone on the cairn to build it up, until eventually you could have a very large pile of rocks! They came in handy when the wind was whipping ferociously as it so often does in those parts. You just get behind the cairn and let it block the wind for you. :)
ReplyDeleteA cottage on a lake is something we dream about for retirement. It's fun to see that someone is living that dream! We have cairns (piles of rocks placed by hikers as April described above) on our New Hampshire mountains too.
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