We made our own breakfasts, bacon and eggs and toast cooked on that wood fired stove. Terry and I didn't even hear our fathers the next morning. No TV, no cell phones back then so it made perfect sense to turn in early. We got back to the cabin about 7pm and since Dad and Uncle Henry wanted to get an early start we all went to bed. Sometimes you had to wait for an hour just to get a seat.
The kind of place that has everything you might need for a week of hunting or fishing but little else! Just one brand of chips, milk and butter and cheese, bread and some canned goods but don't even think of asking for Grey Poupon.just the basics! Still the butcher would cut your steak to order, you cooked it yourself over a wood fired grill and you helped yourself to a baked potato, garlic bread and salad all for the price of the steak plus five bucks. Maxine's was attached to a grocery store. After storing our gear and 'opening up' the cabin that meant making sure all the lights, refrigerator and the pump still worked plus bringing in enough firewood for the first night we headed off for 'Maxine's.' This was not your usual steak house.
We arrived at the cabin about 3 in the afternoon.
