Weekend at Marsha's Cabin

Cheers

Beautiful place to stay - how lucky for you.

August 02, 2010

Sounds like a great weekend and a beautiful place to stay.

July 28, 2010

Weekend at Marsha's Cabin

Naismith, and Marsha Elliott.

Our Weekend At Mike & Marsha's
WILDWOOD FOREST
Log Cabin in Murphy, North Carolina

Mike and Marsha actually purchased two log cabins; a 16' x 16' in Woodbury, Tennessee originally built around 1830 and a few weeks later, a second larger cabin which was built around 1820 in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Both cabins were dismantled and each board was carefully numbered for reassembly on the top of the mountain in Murphy, North Carolina. The smaller cabin became the master bedroom and the larger cabin became the kitchen, keeping room, living room (den) and upstairs loft overlooking the fireplace and hearth. When the two cabins were re-constructed on site a small area between the two cabins was added to allow an “indoor plumbing” bathroom and laundry.

Our Weekend – Lots of Work With Plenty of Time to Play

Some weekends are just destined to be perfect in every way. This was one of them. Great company with special friends I love, a fabulous cabin in the North Carolina mountains, more wonderful home-cooked food that we could ever eat; this was the perfect place for solitude for the Georgia Jubilee Committee to sequester and hammer out final details for the 2010 Jubilee in Helen, Georgia and start planning for 2011, 2012, and 2013.

This is the first time I had ever been to Mike and Marsha's mountain cabin and I fell in love with it the first minute I saw it. We started each morning with a home-cooked breakfast, had a serious business meeting, a short morning break followed by another meeting session, then a delicious but quick home-prepared lunch, more meeting time and a short afternoon break followed by the last meeting of the day. Late in the afternoon we broke for appetizers and Fuzzy Navels (Helen's and my favorite) and then preparation of dinner.

After dinner Bill picked me up and took me down the mountain to our hotel and the other ladies spent the nights in the cabin. First thing each morning Bill drove me back up the mountain.

Sunday morning we had a very personal Sunday School class where we all shared our thoughts with each other. It was so interesting to note that we all had on our minds the same basic thoughts – God's perfect protection and how he has been there when we needed him the most, even insuring our physical safety. At the end of our service Marsha played “Amazing Grace” on the dulcimer as we all four sang along. This was one of the sweetest and most moving services I have ever attended. There was a Sweet, Sweet Spirit in that place, and I know that it was the Spirit of the Lord.