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Box 126, Gettysburg, PA 17325 Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 handed for the bam work. So, in recent years, he has grown more interested in taking to the woods during archery and wild turkey seasons. Hunting competi tion is far less—and the weather generally much more pleasant Or, sometimes, we just head for the camp to hunt a few hours of peace and quiet from ringing phones and bawling calves. Every trip is an adventure of sorts. Thus, on a recent dark, gray afternoon, we drove north through mist and drizzle that threatened to become more of the slushy snow PLANNING TO BUILD? by December 31, 1995! already coating the fields. Dark ness already wrapped around the cabin when we pulled in through the low-hanging hemlocks and tracked through the unblemished light snow coating the small clear ing of the thick forest. Then The Farmer spied what at. first glance looked like a pole stretched across the opposite end of the “U” shaped driveway that circles in from the road. A close look revealed it to be a barrier fashioned from that “Police Line—Do Not Cross” yellow plastic stripping which is stretched around a crime scene. Huh? We looked at each other and wondered what in the world was going on. Unlocking the door, he thew the main electric switch. Nothing. Fried a couple of more times. Still lead blackness. A closer look at the police-line barrier revealed what we by then suspected. The heavy storm a few days before had brought down the pow er lines feeding into the cabin. Someone had barricaded the area where the lines still hung down in 908/454-7900 800-447-7436 # MORTON BUILDINGS P.O. Box 399. Morton, IL 6 1050 © 1994 Morton Buildings, Inc. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, November 25, 1995-B3 the drive. We had no lights. No lanterns. Our flashlight batteries woe blessedly fresh and provided adequate light to stoke up the woodstoves. And a supply of can dles stashed for just such a power failure would provide at least enough light to read by. Sort of. Then, opening the shutter to one window, he crunched through glass on the floor. And found a fist-size hole poked right through one of the panes. But nothing inside appeared to be missing or even disturbed. This was proving to be an adventure of a different sort than anticipated... The Farmer found a replacement pane in stor age, and while I held the flash light, replaced the window section broken by apparent “visitors.” Within an hour, the cabin had warmed enough to be reasonably comfortable. A pan of water for mint tea began to bubble on the stove. Feeling a bit like Abe Lin coln, I hunched over a card table near the light of several candles, reading and making notes. The Fanner bagged his farm maga zines and stretched our on a couch. Actually, it was rather cozy there, with no sounds but the crackling of the woods love and a faint gurgling from the creek. Out side, fat snowflakes were falling. 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