Sally's Cabin

Last updated November 24, 2003

October 10, 2003 Sally and David Wimberly purchased a vacation home -- Sally's cabin in the woods. Its really an 80 acre farm with a ranch style farm house. This parcel is 8 miles south-east of Eureka Springs and straddles the Carroll County and Madison County line with 40 acres in each. It is less than two miles to the beautiful Kings River, and is also close to Branson and Roaring Rivers State Park and trout hatchery (both in Missouri).

The house has quite a history and a lot of character. It was started around 1970 as a concrete block structure with no plumbing, no electricity, and two garage doors -- one for the truck and one for the tractor. It was sold in 1995 and a well and septic system were added and the inside of the house finished (well, almost) including three interior stained glass windows. It was sold again in 1999 when additional living space was added to one corner, the outside covered with cedar siding, and a new metal roof added over the old.

The land is awesome: woods and pastures, a steep valley, benches, two springs, bluffs, a cave, a huge spring fed pond, and many wonderful views including down into the Kings River valley.

Following are photographs from our new retreat. First are a few pictures we took during our first weekend of possession followed by others swiped from the Real Estate agents web site. Viewing these will require IE or NN version 4 or later with JavaScript enabled. All photos will be displayed within this page by replacing the current picture displayed -- initally Tender sitting behind the garage. Please let me know by email if you have trouble using this page, or if you just want to comment on the site.

Our dog Tender -- The Contender

The following were taken by Sally October 26, 2003.

• View from behind the house looking to the South toward the pond and Ben Gay's ridge (the only visible neighbor),
• A vertical and horizontal view of the 9.75 pound 23 inch large mouth bass
caught by Jon Krauft (he's having it mounted) out of our pond,
• Another shot of the bass along with a large catfish caught by Jon's fishing buddy Shane,
• Shane trying his luck with the barn and house in the background,
• My first two weekends at the farm were spent digging a 90 foot trench 18 inches deep with a pick and shovel so we could bury the electrical service to the house and remove the power pole seen in this picture (my third weekend was spent filling in the ditch),
• A view at the start of this ditch digging effort, a view with some conduit laid, and a view of my handy work being admired by Tender, Jon and Shane,
• A view of our valley from the bench and drive to the barn -- which is just below the house.

Pictures taken from the real estate agent's web site.

And last, for those map freaks (like me), here is a topographical map of the property taken from TopoZone. Our 80 acres runs North/South in the center of the map and has been outlined in red (approximately). It includes the high pasture south-east of the only house shown, the county road that ends at the county line, and the pond in the south 40. And compliments of the National Resource Conservation Service, here is an aerial photograph.