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Mar 21 Days of Storm

My week coming up. Wood is already hard to find. With more snow life was going to get harder.  


Mar 20 Little Victories

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. Louis L’Amour Cold and snow coming. I need more wood cut, chopped, transported and the firewood brought inside and stacked. Plus all the other fun things. I have laundry hanging outside that a…


Mar 19 No problem

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire Just went into the village & town to pick up parcels and a few groceries, While I was there I thought I would do some laundry. That is where it all went bad. Three dryers were full and stopped, and they stayed that way for…


Mar 18 Walk

When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough. Jerry West I could see my breath inside the house this morning. I knew I would have to go out and cut then chop wood. I got the…


Mar 17 St. Patrick

Every St. Patrick’s Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green. J. Courtney Sullivan Happy St. Pats day.   I am not superstitious, really, but I am wearing my green sweater.


Mar 16 Sasquatch

Coming to Canada, I’d really like to see Sasquatch. Devendra Banhart Sporting my best Harry and the Henderson’s slept on it all night hair doo. I put on my bathrobe and snow boots to inspect the new gravel that was put down yesterday. My only worry was that a lonely 7-foot high Sasquatch female may…


Mar 15 Gravel

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. Dave Barry I woke to loud trucks revving up outside my driveway exactly 2 minutes before my alarm. After deciding it was just stupidity I went back to sleep for a while. Then I heard more loud trucks and this time a…


Mar 14 Vikings

When you’re a Viking, you never know when you’re going to get the axe. Alyssa Sutherland Funny enough I spent my night dreaming about the words I was going to put here today. Now that it is the morning I have very few words. Maybe I will have more after I don my wood cutting…


Mar 13

I got up fed the cats. I noticed the fresh snow on the solar panels. I threw on my snow boots, still in my bathrobe, twig and berries flip-flopping in the cold wind. This was going to be a quick job. But it wasn’t, the fresh snow was solid ice. Fluffy solid ice, The solar…


Mar 12 Big Day

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy   I didn’t need to go to the moon just town and back and then up on my roof to unclog my chimney. It was extremely hard. My back was sore from loading solar panels and cat food into the van and then…