There’s still no power here in the valley, a week after the snow began. Official totals (as I hear through the grapevine, which certainly doesn’t decrease the total) for the upper elevations in this area for last week was 55 inches. This is believable. It has been compressing impressively; in front of my house, my […]
Tag Archives: winter
Snowmageddon Fallout.
02-Mar-10Astonishing Snowfall.
27-Feb-10diurnally I couldn’t tell you how much snow has fallen here in the past week. Tuesday I shoveled more than a foot of fresh snow off my porch; from Thursday to Saturday I shoveled four times, 12 inches, 12 inches, 14 inches, and 5 inches. There was already about a foot on the ground. But the […]
Winter and Rough Weather.
23-Feb-10Wow. It just keeps snowing here. It’s been snowing all day, wet snow, blizzard conditions, the whole thing. At least eight inches, but who knows how much there really is, and no sign of stopping either. I was planning on heading to the library today for some intellectual nourishment, but that has been postponed. I […]
Uncle John’s Cabin.
17-Feb-10February at the cabin. Every bit as cold as it looks.
In Front of My House.
15-Feb-10Back to the Cabin.
03-Feb-10I had been gone for ten days. When I woke up yesterday morning, it was 30 degrees – and that was inside the cabin. Though I had had a fire the previous night, the first few fires warm the air only, and at night the coldness of the structure reasserts itself. A book, for instance, […]
Tracking the Bear.
15-Jan-10I left around 11:30 this morning to follow the tracks up the mountain. Any doubts I had were quickly resolved; the tracks went underneath low-lying branches and in certain places the pawprints were crystal-clear. It was indeed a bear, wandering around in mid-January. For the most part the tracks were clear. They came to one […]
Letting the pets out…
11-Jan-10… for a stroll on a winter morning. The ever-tame Wildcat Mountain deer.
Home Puttering.
04-Jan-10Warmer weather today. In the 20s, and the wind almost entirely stopped. Carolina Blue skies too – really just a lovely day. Three coyotes swung by last night, one crossing right in front of the house. The deer have fallen into a pattern the past few days, taking a trail that crosses by the stream. […]
Cold.
04-Jan-10Cold weather the past few days, though warmed by the presence of a friend. We explored High Falls Brook, hiked up to the weather station, and got a fair amount of wood cut. I did my laundry yesterday in Liberty. As I went in to the laundromat I grabbed my detergent, which I keep in […]