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Category Archives: Life in the Catskills

The view from my window.

07-Dec-08

Iterum in silvis.

05-Dec-08

      I returned to the cabin to find it 35 degrees inside (and this in mid-afternoon during the warm spell before the arctic front arrives).  It had obviously been quite a bit colder most of the time I was gone.  The cold damaged my Norfolk Island Pine, killed my basil plant (at left), and apparently […]

Peekamoose Mountain, from the neighbor’s land.

10-Nov-08

High of 33 degrees today, with intermittent snow.  November in the Catskills.  A day for splitting wood.

An October Surprise.

29-Oct-08

I wasn’t expecting to get 16″ of snow before I even got to carve my jack-o’-lanterns, but apparently this happens sometimes in the Catskills.  Slide Mountain, just a few miles away, apparently got 20″.  I’ll be on foot for the next few days, until the (unplowed) road to my cabin thaws.