Category Archives: winter
Rotting Hemlock.
20-Feb-14You Know It’s Cold When…
22-Jan-14Kabul You know it’s cold inside your cabin when you grab your shoes in the morning to go off to work, and they won’t come up – because they’ve frozen to the floor overnight. And it was a lot colder outside the cabin.
Cold.
07-Jan-14buy isotretinoin online europe When I woke up this morning it was 33 – inside my house. I got up (reluctantly) and went off to work. We were tapping the trees this morning. But by noon it still hadn’t gotten above zero, and the boss had mercy on us and sent us home at lunchtime. It wasn’t so bad […]
Working, working, working. Not home much except at night. But it’s been amazing. More than a foot of snow on the ground.
Wildcat Mountain Homestead.
14-Feb-13Tracking the Wildcat.
04-Feb-13Sometimes I hate the fact that I don’t wake up about an hour before dawn, when all the animals are doing interesting things. I woke up yesterday morning and went to the spring for water, when I saw an unusual set of very clear prints in the snow. All the local carnivores (except the bears) […]
A Winter Day.
02-Feb-13The day started sunny and cold and bright, good woodcutting weather, and I ended up bringing in something like nine bags of wood today. This is a good day’s work. I split some black cherry, which is so beautiful that I often feel a little bad about burning it. It supposedly takes the knife and […]
Cold Spell.
23-Jan-1334 degrees inside the cabin when I got up this morning. Don’t know how cold it was outside because it was colder than the thermometer’s range – it just said “LO”. Somewhere below zero. I had to defrost a block of mozzarella yesterday just to eat it – despite keeping it indoors. I thought about […]
Warmth.
13-Dec-12After writing about winter closing in, the weather made a sharp turn, became warm, melted all the snow, and late-fall conditions have resumed. This is a very pleasant time, especially with the hunters mostly gone: the views are excellent, the ground is highly visible, and it is cold enough to make hard manual labor (for […]
Winter in the Cabin.
01-Dec-12For the past week it has been consistently cold and wintry here in the cabin. There is snow on the ground, and I have to walk in from the road; my dirt driveway is now closed off. Snowshoes are not required yet, but snow that has fallen is starting to pile up. I spend some […]