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Dec 22 Fogged

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog. Alex O’Loughlin It is foggy again. I can see bluesky. All my solar panels see is more thick fog. They are not making enough to power a flashlight. I could run the gen but I am running out fuel that is already old. Same with…


Dec 21 Still Pumping

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. Otto von Bismarck Another day still alive. My heart is still functioning. Outside in the fog, snow was gatheredinto a giant bowl. I wanted to take a pic, but there was no use. I could have just shot a a…


Dec 20 Chest Pains Cont’d

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller   I didn’t gather snow, I didn’t start a fire. Cats were fed & watered. The gen was filled and started, I didn’t fill my solar batteries to a hundred…


Dec 19 Paradise

HBM Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul Another day in paradise, cut wood make fire, feed, and water cats. Oh and gather 80 pounds of snow for melt, then huff and puff like an asmatic granny (don’t care about the mispell) at a smoke filled bingo hall….


Dec 18 Kneeling to the God of Fire

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ William Arthur Ward No I was not worshipping Satan. I was on my knees cutting wood and preparing the woodstove for this mornings fire. I watched an episode of SG1 about the Ori, who represented evil using fire…


Dec 17 Minus

You know, once something freezes, it’s solid. That’s the key to the arctic – they didn’t fear the cold, they made use of it. Wade Davis In the fire room minus 2, outside minus 30. Best surprise ever 2 gallons of melted water in the big steel bowl. Not knocked over. I let out a…


Dec 16 Shit Ton of Wood

Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci I cut a lot of pallet wood this morning. I needed it. Mins 29 arrived last night not tonite as predicted. I didn’t sleep more than a couple of hours. An hour and ten minutes according to my smart watch. Cats are fed, fire…


Dec 15 Only 10″

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Napoleon Bonaparte Ya get yer mind outta da gutter. Ten inches of snow last night. Minus 30 tommorrow night and the night after. By Friday they say it will get warmer. It is Sunday. More snow Tuesday. Out of…


Dec 14 The Big Snow

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The big snow has not arrived yet. The snowfall warning has been issued to all the Weather websites by the government. They all said it was to start at 10 AM. I checked the radar maps it seems that might happen…


Friday The 13th December

Happy Friday the 13th! May all your irrational superstitions haunt you today.” Let’s make a deal. I show today some respect and you don’t drop a meteorite on my head, or a spacestation, or an infinite ways to cause me harm. Other 13th Day Fridays 13 13 13 13 Where it Started