A total work of fiction. Everyone is over 21years of age.
No animals were injured in the writing of this story.
Any similarity between any person living or dead or any place or thing is not intentional.
I have had a few girlfriends in my life but never found "the one" so at 25 I was single. I won't put you to sleep with all the vital stats stuff. Mainly because I am pretty average. I had been pretty lucky and had some great jobs. I wasn't rich but I had enough money to get what I wanted and enjoy life at the same time.
I had a small apartment, but I loved being around the water and loved being outside the city. I started looking for a place on a lake. Being in the north I wanted a summer place as well as someplace to hide in the winter when things got stressful.
After months of searching, I found a place on a small lake in the middle of nowhere. It was a small cabin that I could work on and insulate so I could spend some winter days there as well as weekends on the summer. I had the only place on the lake with the nearest town being about ten miles away. The place had a water well, an outhouse (not something I enjoyed) and a storage shed with a small generator in it. The house and property had no electricity other than the generator as it was not close to anything and running electricity to the property was cost prohibitive. In the house there was a fireplace and a wood burning stove. I had an LP Gas Stove and a small apartment sized refrigerator in it. The cabin had one bedroom, a washroom, and a large combination living room, kitchen, dining room. Open concept to the max. I was pretty lucky because the previous owner's kids were all gone, and they said they had no use for the place anymore, so they sold it furnished, and I got it cheap.
The place was about 90 miles from my apartment, so this was the perfect place for me. I would get off work on Friday and head for the lake. I would go right from work so I would be there by 6:30pm or before, if I got off a little early. I would usually stay until Sunday night about 6:00pm and would be home at 7:30pm I bought a little boat and motor and would spend my weekends relaxing and fishing. Most of the time I didn't care if I caught any fish or not because I was there to destress mostly.
Occasionally I would invite some of my family up to the place but most of the time I was alone. Because I was in the middle of nothing and the only road leading to my place was down a very long drive, I would keep the gate locked most of the time. The only people I saw were the ones I invited.
Because I was alone, I didn't find much reason to dress with much more than shorts and shoes. After a while I realized I didn't even need the shorts as no one was going to see me anyway and I am not that bashful. I would wander around on the property sans clothes. I would skinny dip and needless to say I had a great tan.
One evening while I was having dinner at a mom-and-pop restaurant I really liked, I met a young lady who was a couple of years younger than me. She was blonde just a little shorter than me and I thought she was beautiful. She was my server at the restaurant, and I later learned that she was the daughter of the owners of the place. She was off for the summer from grad school and helping at the family business. I was smitten. I started going there almost every evening for my meals and always sitting at one of her tables.
After a couple of weeks, she asked me "You are here every night but never on the weekends, why is that?"
I told her I had a cabin and went there every weekend to relax and destress.
We started talking about the place and how I loved it and would live there all the time if I could. The more we talked the better I liked her. So, I asked her if she ever had any days off and could I take her to dinner sometime.
I realized I didn't even know her name, so I introduced myself. I said, "Hi I am Dan Anderson."
She smiled and said, "I am Janice Smith."
She said she looked forward to me coming in because I was her favorite customer, and yes, she would go out with me.
I was overjoyed and we went out her very next day off. We had dinner and went to a movie. Most importantly we talked. And talked. And talked.
It didn't take us long to become very close. She was always asking me about my place at the lake. I told her all about it and even showed her some pictures. She said she loved the place. She also told me she was getting a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering and whenever I was ready to wire the place for electricity to let me know. She would design a solar system for me.
Not only was she beautiful but she was also smart. I asked her what this would entail, and she told me what I would need to have for an unlimited supply of electricity. I scrimped and managed to save enough money to buy all the parts I needed to put in the system.
When I had all the parts I told her and she said, "Great you let me know when you are ready, and I will go up there with you and see how far we can get in the installation."
I told her when ever she would get off work to let me know and we would go to the lake for the weekend.
She told me she could take off the next weekend so I could pick her up and we would be off and running.
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The next weekend I managed to get Friday off early so I hopefully we could get some things done yet on Friday. I picked her up Friday afternoon and we headed to the Lake. I had most of the small stuff loaded in the back of my pick-up truck and had planned for the remainder to be delivered to my cabin Saturday morning.
I picked up Janice at 2:00 pm and we headed for the lake. We arrived about 3:20 pm and I opened the cabin and started some coffee after bringing in the supplies for the weekend and starting the generator so we could use the refrigerator.
Janice started going through the materials I brought with me so see that we had what we needed and started laying things out for assembly. After looking around she thought it was best if we put the batteries and other equipment in the shed near the generator that could be used if there was no sun. to charge the batteries.
I went out to help her moving stuff around and to the locations she wanted to install the items. I only had a vague idea of what she was doing. I am not mechanical but do get by. I had looked up Solar Panels on the internet and sort of knew what she was doing. Janice told me this was great as this is one to the things she was studying in school, but of course on a much larger scale but this would help her learn the practical side of things.
I told her that I would go out to clean out the shed so there would be room to work and get things ready for the arrival of the solar panels and larger supplies we needed the next day. Janice started measuring and making diagrams as well as making squiggles and drawings of stuff I had no idea of what they were other than it looked like electrical diagrams
By this time, we were both about starved and I went in and dinner. I am not a bad cook but nothing fancy, I did have a barbeque pit at the cabin so I fired it up so I could cook some chicken with some roasted sweet corn. We gobbled it down with a beer and started making plans for what we were going to do in the morning.
Because the area of the house was wooded, we were going to put the solar panels closer to the lake in the front yard. That was the hardest part, so we decided to tackle that first. I had to dig some deep holes to put poles in which would support the panels.
As we made our plans, I realized this was going to me more than a weekend job. At least a couple of weekends. I realized we still had a couple of hours of sunlight, so I grabbed a shovel and started doing some of the grunt work which meant less to do later.
Janice started laying out the lines that we would need to connect everything together. I was so lucky not only was she a beautiful girl, but she was super intelligent and knew exactly what she was doing compared to my little knowledge about electricity. I am so happy she volunteered for this job because I knew without her, I would never get the job done.
I was digging deep holes in the ground for the poles to be placed that would hold the solar panels. I have to admit I am not in the best shape ever and this was hot tiring work. As the sun started to go down, I finally admitted to myself I was done for the day. And it was time to take a break.
I had been working that poor girl to death, so I went and got a couple of beers from the frig and took her one and convinced her to come and sit on the porch and watch the sun go down with me.
We both took our beers and sat on the rockers on the front porch. I told her that "my life's ambition was to be able to sit on this porch in a rocker and watch my grandkids running around at the lake." She laughed and told me it was funny she always thought about that also.
As the sun dipped and it was darkening quickly, I looked over and said "It's been a long day do you want to take a dip in the lake"
She said, "I would love to but didn't bring a bathing suit."
I asked her if she was shy. She asked me why I was asking. I told her it was because I didn't have a bathing suit either. And because this lake was so remote, I just went skinny dipping when I wanted to cool off. In fact, very seldom did I wear clothes at all, only when I was working.
Janice looked at me and said, "Really" with sort of a strange look on her face.
I responded that I had no neighbors and unless you could figure out how to get through a locked gate there was no possibility of having anyone see me. I went on to tell her that normally when I was here alone, I normally didn't wear any clothes at all.
She again looked at me and sort of smiled and said, "well don't let me stop you."
I told her that was okay working out like this I usually wore shorts when I worked but I was taking this T-Shirt off because I was really getting hot.
I walked to the edge of the lake, kicked off my shoes and dropped my shorts and waded into the water.