After
Fiddler met the Hideaway Bears, he found a quiet place on the banks of Mirror
Lake and it was here he built a quaint little cabin of chinked piddle pine
and cedar. His cabin has three rooms: A living room with an over-stuffed couch,
a twisted leg stool and a small table with a hammered metal lamp. A kitchen
with a blackened wood stove and firewood, neatly cut from pitchy pine, a round
wooden table, three carved wooden chairs, and pictures of his family in Kapriol
hanging on the wall. He sleeps in the third room on a wooden bed with a mattress
stuffed with sweet grasses refreshed every summer from Minnow Meadow. Thirteen
paces behind the cabin is his workshop heated by an old, brass pot-bellied
stove where he burns scraps of wood when the winter brings the snow and icy
winds. The workshop is lantern lit and is everything you could ever want of
a workshop: The floor is strewn with sawdust and wood shavings, tools are
hung neatly on the wall, there is a work bench with a window that is always
shuttered. It's important to know that if Fiddler can see out he would be
distracted by the beauty of Barely There. Instead he keeps the shutters drawn
so he can focus on the magic of the violins that he makes.