48 Hour Cabin Getaway in North Georgia: Best of Autumn 🍁
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- The autumn season has once again graced the woods of North Georgia, and one of the best ways to celebrate the vibrant beauty of the fall foliage is through a rustic cabin getaway. Tucked behind a family farm is a cozy log cabin with panoramic views of golden mountains and open pastures, perfect for some peaceful time out in the countryside. Join us for a festive and ambient 48 hours, as we enjoy the best of the fall season with autumnal meals, scenic hikes, and nightly campfires! 🍂
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Thank you so much for joining us on our little fall retreat! We hope you’ve been having a fantastic and restful autumn season, filled with delicious food and great company. In next week’s video, we will be taking you along on yet another fall getaway, but rather than a log cabin, it will be to a boutique treehouse in the woodland mountains. 🍁 It’s going to be everything whimsical and everything enchanting!!! See you next Saturday! 🥰
I am loving these getaway videos. The quaintness of the cabin, the fall leaves and the quietness of the woods. It's picture perfect. Gretel is so adorable, I love the way she follows you all around. It was so funny when she stood a little way off from the animals. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Such a nice time to retreat. Such a nice homage to 3-4 season states where you can live in the woods or forest; sit by or fish by streams, rivers and lakes; walk down the lane and hike trails of constant interest. So glad I live where I can do all those things. Glad you can too!
I've been following you guys for a while now. You are lovely and wonderful, but I do need express a great appreciation for Gretel. Whenever I see her in a video, she makes me smile.
When you didn’t sit outside for your first dinner I was like no…why…then on your next meal i was so happy to see you eat outside! Lol! Being outdoors even for a meal I feel can be so enjoyable. 🍃☀️
Love the cozy cabin vibes!
Loved this!! Definitely my kind of a getaway 😊😊😊
I was here with my family and it was AMAZING
It looks like you guys had the perfect fall getaway! Glad Chad could join you this time.
The cabin is just darling!
Gretel is truly in her element in the woods…adorable. 🥰
Autumn is definitely my favorite season.❤
Same here! It's always more fun when Chad gets to tag along! 🥰 Thank you so much for watching- glad we could share a little slice of our autumn season with you. 😁 (It's also my favorite season!!!) 🧡
Such a cute couple! You guys are so adventurous! Love the Cabin! Beautiful!
Thank you, thank you!!! You are too kind! 🧡🧡🧡
What a great place to visit! ❤ Thanks for the tour!
Absolutely! 🥰 We hope to go back to experience the cabin in another season! Thank you so much for watching!!! 💘
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such a lovely cottage. thank you for this beautiful video
One of the most beautiful and homey places we've stayed!!! 🤩 Thank YOU for watching! 🥰
I love the fall season, the warm sun the crisp air and the colours of the trees. Your fall retreat looked like the perfect place to enjoy and relax. 🇨🇦
Indeed- what's not to love?! It's truly a season that is so easy to celebrate! 🧡🧡🧡
Beautiful !
Indeed- we couldn't stop looking at all the fall leaves!!! 😍
Love your nature collage!!! Yes letting go of control is such a great skill…so glad Gretel got to come along! What a beautiful little cabin!
Thank you!!! 💛 I had so much fun making it (and taking in the lesson that came with it hahaha). Gretel's sitting right next to me right now, and she sends her love! 🥰
Super video. I like everything about the quaintness of the place. Only in Chattanooga can one find such a special outfitted cabin. Enjoyed all the photography and music in the video, but mostly I enjoyed your philosophical thoughts about life!
Thank you so much, Bodvar! 💓 Chattanooga and all the smaller surrounding cities have such spectacular accommodations with wonderful hosts! We simply can't get enough of that Southern hospitality hahaha. So glad you enjoyed our recent thoughts of life- it's always fun documenting how we see the world in the present moment, because we get to look back on our perspectives in the future! 😁
I sense an angst, a distance, that was not there when you were touring in your little van. You will be all right. Relax, there are some things that just take time, years, maybe a life time. Still, it is a good idea that you know where you are going and if you are really lucky, you will never get there. The more you know and learn, the more that you can know and learn. Anyway, I am sharing this little bit of my journey with you here. I do not know any other way. - - - - - Each of us, in our own ways, gradually acquired the many skills necessary. For me, the acquisition of some skills was illusive. It took me years of daily practice to master the skill of pulling handles. Sure, I admit that I put wispy poorly applied handles on pots for years. However, I felt bad about every single one. Yet, every one was the best that I could do at that moment in time. I knew they didn’t feel right or look right. Thankfully I had the vision to see and to know that. Every day, I spent at least an hour pulling handles over a slurry pail, letting each one fall to its deserving death, to be recycled and resurrected again for another exercise. Usually, it was the first thing I did in the morning after attending to the clay mixing barrels and wedging the day’s supply of clay. On most mornings I would pull about ten pounds of practice handles. I also exercised pulling handles directly off of pots. I threw pots of various sizes and shapes especially for handle pulling practice. It is easy to see that I devoted a good bit of studio time to support the practice of pulling handles. It was that important to me. Still, it was drudgery. Some part of me knew, however, that one day I would arrive at the point where my practicing would allow me to be able to pull any type of handle, of any shape, width, or length that I wanted or needed. For years this did not happen. Every day the results seemed to be the same. It was extremely frustrating but I stayed with it like religion.
I don’t know why, but my expectations were wrong. I have dabbled with music my entire life. Practicing on a regular basis has always brought continuing bits of progress in a stepping stone fashion. Difficult fingerings and maneuvers became gradually easier and smoother with repetition. Learning one thing would open a small door to make learning another thing easier. There seemed to be connections and links between one musical learning path and other musical paths. When I learned to draw, it was very much the same way. I had this expectation of incremental progress with handle pulling but it didn’t happen. Slow improvement with small advances were frustrating enough but almost no improvement or advancement, over a long period of time, was often just torture. Sure, there was some improvement over the years since I left school but it was minimal.
One morning I began the daily ritual of practice and it was totally different. I am pretty sure that I did everything exactly as I normally would, but that day it felt different. That was it, it was a feeling not a product and not an intellectual act! That day I felt the clay. I felt it with my fingers. I felt it with my hands. I felt it with my eyes. I didn’t just look at the clay and see the clay; I actually felt the clay with my eyes. The whole process was about feeling. It was a day of epiphany. I never thought it would all come together in a single moment but it did. The day before every handle I pulled was serviceable but lacking in grace, authority, and fluidity. Suddenly I felt like I could pull powerful handles of any width, cross section, or length. So, that’s what I started to do. I pulled all the little handle plugs I had fashioned for the morning’s practice and stuck them to edge of a worktable. I rolled up a cone of about three pounds of clay and tried to see how long I could pull a handle. It was longer than thirty inches because it touched the floor when I stuck it to the table top. I took what was left of the cone and did it again and again and again. It wasn’t just a long handle but the cross section was pleasantly hefty and two dorsal ridges evenly spaced for the whole length. The two dorsal ridges were indicative of the Alfred, New York style of handle. The handles each had a pleasing, slow, gradual taper from one end to the other. I pulled handles that were of an English style with one dorsal ridge. I pulled round handles and round handles with multiple ridges. I pulled handles with a square cross section. I pulled handles with my right hand. I pulled handles with my left hand. I tired to see how wide I could pull a handle with either hand. I stuck a large wide cone of clay to a table top to see how wide and how long I could pull a handle using both hands. I brought out the tray of handle practice pots and attached little noses of clay of various widths to the pots and pulled handles directly from the pots. I had never been able to successfully do that to my own satisfaction before. Instantly I realized that it would, from that day forward, be the method I would use to attach handles almost all of the time. Although it had nothing to do with pulling handles, I decided that day that I would try to once-fire pottery from that point on, no more pointless bisque firings. Not only had I acquired the control of the clay in pulling handles that day but I think I became a different person. Or at the least, I had become a very different version of the person I had been the day before. I could feel the clay and that made me feel as though I had been pulling handles for ever like the handles I had been pulling that day. My fingers and hands experimented with subtle pressures and movements. My whole being became filled with a mystical spiritual joy. Within a few hours I had stuck a handle to every available surface and every available pot. My apron was covered with slurry. I held the clay as high as I could to keep from tiring. Slurry covered both arms and when I raised my arms high; the slurry ran into my armpits. It was a glorious feeling. By noon that day I could no longer remember not having the feeling, which was just the day before, when I didn’t have total control of the clay in pulling handles. Maybe it would be better to say that I couldn’t remember a time when I was not one with the clay. I couldn’t remember a time when I couldn’t feel the clay in such a way that I knew what the clay wanted or needed. I could no longer remember what it felt like to not be able to pull beautiful handles.
At some point my oldest daughter, Heather, had entered the room but I hadn’t noticed her. I have no idea how long she had been quietly watching me. Time has always been a mystery to me.
I heard her small voice say, “Dad, you’re starting to scare me”.
Startled, I turned and asked, “What do you mean”?
“You’ve got handles stuck everywhere. What are you doing”, she asked?
“I’m just happy”, I said, “Yesterday I couldn’t pull handles like this and today I can”.
“I think I better go tell mom”, she said in a dramatic worried manner and disappeared back into the house. She was truly concerned. I’m sure she thought I had completely lost my mind. She is over forty years old now and she still loves telling the story about me sticking handles everywhere in the workshop.
It may seem very strange but I knew what the feeling would be like the first time I saw someone else skillfully working in clay. I knew it was something I had to do. I knew I had to get that feeling. The feeling was like the memory of something remote and long ago. When it all came together on one day it was like a physical muscle memory that had been reclaimed from time. I think I knew what it would feel like because it was suddenly such a familiar feeling. At some point in time I think I had done it all before.
I spent the following several days designing and making items constructed with just pulled handles. I made bud vases and candlesticks and wall sconces. I practiced attaching handles that ended in a smooth fluid billowing flow, like the waves of a ribbon. I practiced applying wide sturdy handles, horizontally, to the sides of large planters. I pulled short, medium and long handles of various profiles from the undersides of pots to become legs. I involved myself totally in a sort of orgy of handle pulling and application. As an adult I’m not sure that I was, ever before, so excited by any other activity or skill acquisition. For a short while it was all consuming.
Eventually things once again became more balanced. Handle pulling accepted its rightful place as one of an arsenal of useful potter’s skills. However, physically, aesthetically, and spiritually, pulling handles remains at the top of my list of favorite pleasurable pottery activities. It also always gives me great pleasure to pickup someone else’s pots to more closely examine and admire the beauty of a well pulled and expertly attached handle. Sadly, it is not often that I experience such handles.
The perfect place for fall. Love the videos. Keep the good work going ❤
It really was! 😁 We couldn't have asked for anything better!!! Thank you so much for your support and encouragement! 💓💓💓
Glad to seeing you enjoy a beautiful fall trip as a family. The photography, music and your conversation were very enjoyable. It is good to be in the hills of the countryside. I enjoyed today in the gentle fall weather doing a final mowing of the field with my grandson sitting with me in my tractor and telling me he loved his granddad. Life is good! We had chicken and dumplings with mashed potatoes and peas for dinner. I am glad you live in Tennessee not too far from us. Your loyal follower, Vaughn
We're going to be (re)learning the guitar, so we can be in your campfire band! 😉 LOVE the steak skewer over the fire and all of your delicious meals. This looked like an amazing fall retreat! 😍
YES!!! Between all of us, we can have a four-piece band!!! 😂 Can't wait to cook meals with you two down the road- we're going to eat SO good! 😁
Wait Chad works? 😢
Another awesome vid. Loved the cabin and views.
Yes!!! Just this past year, he decided to get a job at the local Whole Foods, just so that he gets a sense of community. It's hard making long-term friends while traveling all the time, and this job has allowed him to have some stability in friendships and a fantastic work community! 💗He's also sooo good at food preparation and cooking now, because he's in the pizza and sandwich department at Whole Foods hahaha. Thank you so much for watching-so glad you enjoyed the video! 🥰
This is one of the best videos I've watched of you guys. I love that cabin and the surroundings its at. Very serene and just perfect to experience the fall season. It's soothing to watch you both with Gretel living a simple and happy life, appreciating every moment, seeing the best any place has to offer. Claire, I love the artist in you (the nature art you created with fall leaves, pine cones, stones, etc) not to mention your eloquence describing each of your videos--It's like I'm in those places too. This cabin getaway video is very "disconnecting" from all the rushed daily lifestyle. I really wish I could find to do something like that with my dog (in the near future). Chad, I really like your thoughts on "rose bud thorn" . I'll try to apply in it on my daily grind. Every shot in this video is so cool! I love the fall season and this video gives me all that fall vibe. Looking forward to your next adventure.
This is such a kind and thoughtful comment- thank you for taking the time to write it. 🥰 I was smiling so big this morning as I read it! To be able to share our current perspectives on life and the way we experience each place we visit, and to have others resonate with our thoughts, is gratifying and heart-warming in every way. I'll certainly continue to let the artist in me find the magic in the everyday as we continue to share our adventures together. Wishing you the most wonderful autumn week, and again, thank you for such a special comment! 💛💛💛
You two 👩 👧🐶are interesting people, thanks for sharing, love channel always some thing difference. Have a nice winter☃ and holiday season.🕯🕯🪔🪔 Cheers 🍜🍜👨🏫
Thank you!!! 🤗 It's always fun being somewhere different- it constantly shows us new ways of looking at life! Wishing you and all your loved ones the most wonderful holiday season! 😁
Great video! Very beautiful. Is that the same place you went on your solo trip? This place is just breath taking snd very relaxing. Great food you two made too Have an awesome day you too plus Gretel❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for watching!!! 🥰 It was actually a different location, but probably just 20 minutes north of where I was on my solo trip! We couldn't get over how beautiful the property was! 😍 Gretel says hello and sends virtual hugs!!! 🤍
@@ChadandClaire welcome and thank you for responding. So cool if Gretel 🤣 Wasn’t sure cause both places are so beautiful and thought this place seemed bigger. Told my husband I would love to go over there next yr when weather is nice. Such a piece full place Love watching your channel. You two are amazing. Bless you both and Gretel ❤️😎
What music is this? I love it!!
are you going to europe or india