A Message from Caroline:
Dear ones,
Caroline Kern on the porch of the Muleskinner Lodge
Please let me invite you to come and enjoy one of the most unique experiences you ever will. If you have stress and need to relax and kick back awhile; if you are passing through our area; or just need to get away from the rat race, just come and visit us at the Muleskinner Lodge. Peace will be once again with you as you gaze across the deck and ravine to the “Maggie ‘N Me Meadow” and enjoy watching, “The Woods Fill Up With Snow”, as the poet wrote. Wintry snows sometimes blanket the trees and vista lovely as you toast your toes before the cozy corner fireplace and nestle in the pillow ladden log futon. In summer, you may want to take a walk through the woods, play in the solarium‘s hot tub or just enjoy something cool to drink on the lovely deck. Around every corner is an entirely different facet of uniqueness. I wanted to make the lodge unique because my son was unique and to express myself; it can take you back to another time when living was simple but beautiful. It‘s a prime example of doing something worthwhile with very little. I now have a much deeper respect of the early settlers and their need to “making do with what God gave them!” Many folks have come just to look at the lodge, it is so unique.
The lodge could not have become a reality without the skillful workmanship of my fine friends, Neil Wagner of Alma, Kansas, and Edwin Biester of Valley Falls, Kansas. Very special thanks go out to them for their talents and extreme hard labor in their relentless assistance and confidence in me and my endeavor. They stuck by me all the way through the difficult intricate details that were required. For that, I love them and am forever grateful and in their debt.
Encouragement abounded in the transition of the barn to lodge and without that, those five years would have been next to impossible. Thanks to everyone who gave us that encouragement. Special thanks also to each person who stepped in and gave us a hand.
Many have asked where I got my ideas for all the uniqueness and I could only point upwards. Most of all, I thank HIM. I have tried to exemplify his creations in the lodge the best I could. I think you will agree, God is Great. He surely knew what he was doing when he made a cedar and a hedge tree.
I have several other wonderfully exciting ideas for more interesting features and good times that I hope will develop in the near future that I can share with you.
Hoping to hear from you
and wishing you the best of blessings,
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