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Friday 13th 2022

Winter has ended, for now. Frogs are back to singing as are the red wing blackbirds around the pond. I spent the afternoon on maintenance. Yup the beard and hair are sheared off. I decided to cook the two pizza’s that needed cooking. I used the camp stove. Burnt in the middle raw on the…


May 11 Birds

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. Douglas Coupland Long gone are the days of long telephoto lens and high speed photography. Today a flock of giant birds almost Ostrich size, with a little exageration, were feeding on lost…


May 9 Last Snow

Hopefully this is the last snowstorm of this winter. Lots of work to to do here in the summer.


May 8 Mother Fookers Day

Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller HBRNB What a morning. My kitchen was trashed. Jar broken, everything on the floor, pots, tools, food. My tshirts and socks that were drying on the ladder now on the floor in a pile and pissed on. My giant steel bowl for melting snow,…


May 7 Heavy White Rain

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‘All the Gods are bastards.’ Terry Pratchett I picked the quote above because I related to it. When I was in the Navy out at sea in a big storm. I stood at the bow of the ship…


May 5 Cinco de Mayo

Cats don’t need to be possessed; they’re evil on their own  Peter Kreeft It has been a great day so far. A cat broke into my kitchen, every night this week. This time it destroyed a huge new package of toilet paper I just brought that home yesterday. All the rolls were torn into shreds….


May 4 Snow Weekend Coming

Just when I thought winter was over. I saw snow and minus temperatures forecast for this weekend.


May 3 Foggy Day

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg I had big plans, but the thick fog put a quick end to that. Try again tomorrow.