Pictures of the Bear's House

I'm packing up to leave for England -- next you see me I'll be in either London or Lincoln, depending on where I can get on to the 'net first -- and meanwhile, Sam has obligingly gone on over to Bear's Retreat and taken pictures. We do NOT own this place yet, you understand -- we're supposed to close on June 30 -- so technically this involved trespassing. Excellent man.

Here's the house; observe the log part (1790) and the brick part (1840):



Here are the ruins of the spring house:




Here are the ruins of the summer kitchen:

Here's the log side of the house, with chimney:

And here is the Mysterious Carving of a hand pointing to something, nobody knows what:




This carving is at the back of the house, on the stone foundation of the 1840 part of the house. It is pointing directly to the seam joining the brick section onto the log section. These little pointing hands, in my experience of manuscripts at least, always point DIRECTLY to the item the creator wishes you to see. However, the seam joining the bricks and the logs is pretty damn obvious, so I don't see why you'd want to point it out.

My guess is that there was once something there that is there no longer.

I think the child would be enriched by believing it to be Lost Buried Treasure, which is Probably Still There, as long as he doesn't then undermine the foundations.

Now that I think of it, I'd best tell him somebody already probably found it.

It was being marked out, after all.