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Feb 9 2019 Colder

-38 “That’s about all I got to say bout that.” Forrest Gump Just watching an episode of Longmire. The one where he is chasing a bad guy on foot in a snowstorm then falls into a creek. Like I wasn’t already feeling the cold. The wood stove isn’t drafting right It means most likely that the…


Feb 8 2019 Revelation

“What use is revelation or religion if it doesn’t change anything?” Abu Bakar Bashir I know it is late writing this almost the next day. I had some revelations about my life and had to digest them. Things that make me look at deep within. I don’t really want to talk about those yet, maybe…


feb 7 2019 Science

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” Pope John Paul II I am sure writing is a mental illness. One that causes words to generate in your brain, gathering speed, ricocheting until they are let out where others can see them. A witness to the…


feb 6 2019 Paradise

“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.” Laurie Anderson It’s another day in Paradise. -40 or colder outside. The Arctic air mass has invited itself to stay until Tuesday. I have seen this before. Arctic air doesn’t like to leave once it settles in. This is the third extension…


feb 5 2019 Dr A.

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.” Hippocrates I guess the music I picked for this day seems to fit. Who goes outside in minus 50 gathers snow in big steels bowls to melt on the woodstove. The man, who will go out later and finish snow removal, chop…


Feb 4 2019 Numb

“There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it. “ Douglas Coupland It is cold out I was able to generate a little solar power, enough to write…


Feb 3 2019 Creamed Ice

I woke excited it was sunny, I looked over at my voltage gauges for my battery banks, they were the same as last night. What!!!!!  should be charging like crazy. Snow there must be snow on the solar panels. I sprinted to door to have a look Yup needed sweeping. I grabbed a hat, gloves,…


Feb 2 2019 Freezing monkeys

“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I will write more a little later.  The storm total  10 inches (ca. 25 cm) of snow. The sun has poked out for a while, so I can charge the solar batteries a bit….


Feb 1 2019 Frozen wood

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” Henry Kissinger Well I could tell you we had terrific amounts of snow from the polar vortex colliding with a wet lower pressure system from the ocean, but it would be a lie. It is biting cold out, I went for a stroll to see what was…


January 31 2019 It’s coming

“Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.” Bear Grylls Woke at 3 A.M. I felt really rough, pain, dizziness, balance problems. After an hour or so the symptoms seemed to calm down, but there was no going back to sleep. The polar vortex is…