Ammi Moussa I heard a crashing sound yesterday – some beast knocking over a plank of wood – and I quickly ventured outside to take a look. There had been some bear activity earlier that very day. This however was a deer, who had been grazing near where I had some dimensional lumber standing. Though the plank […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
A Visitor.
28-Jun-12Bear Aerated Compost.
28-Jun-12order Pregabalin online I came out yesterday morning to find my compost pile entirely tossed. This must be the work either of the raccoons or the bears, though in this instance the fact that the board closing off the compost bin had been ripped off indicated that it was the bear. And a neighbor reported having a bear […]
Praying for Rain on St. John’s Day.
24-Jun-12It supposedly rained all of May, but there’s been very little precipitation in June. I had about fifty or so gallons of water stored in a cistern when I arrived. I can go down to the spring for drinking water, which is no trouble, but lugging water a few hundred feet uphill to water the […]
Country Alarm Clock.
24-Jun-12I was woken up this morning by some weird scratching at the front door – it sounded like some animal was gnawing the screen off the door. It was clearly a small animal, and I wasn’t too worried about it, but it just wouldn’t stop – so I got up (it was just past 5 […]
Such an early, unusual year.
20-Jun-12Ate my first blueberries yesterday. Lowbush blueberries, the highbush are still a few weeks away. But amazingly early – three weeks early! And a very heavy crop too. These lowbush blueberries cover Wildcat Mountain, and while they can’t produce as abundantly as the larger highbush variety, the berries are very tasty and well worth the […]
Growing.
20-Jun-12Hay-scented fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula.
Back in the Woods.
20-Jun-12I’ve spent my first complete week up here on Wildcat Mountain, and I can’t express how amazed I am with the place: a week here is a thousand years with the Lord. Most of the small, good things that constitute life in the Catskills have happened in some form for me in the past few […]
Fracking.
07-May-12Catskill photographer Les Stone has started turning his camera on fracking in Pennsylvania so we know exactly what we’re talking about. I’m sympathetic to the argument that if we consume energy we had better share the burden of producing it. But destroying groundwater – forever – is always going to be just about the least […]
Disconnection.
02-Jan-12One of the strange and unpleasant things about being away from my cabin is the fact that I can be contacted at any moment, and, being in need of employment, I have nothing particularly better to do; and so I find myself constantly opening my phone, or refreshing my computer screen, like a five-year-old trying […]
Fracking and Earthquakes.
06-Apr-12Human beings have become so incredibly powerful. A 600% increase in 3.0-or-greater magnitude earthquakes in middle America with no known natural explanation for it – the USGS describes the earthquakes as “almost certainly manmade.” The probable cause is fracking. “If you are doing deep well injection, you are altering the stress on the underlying rocks […]