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The last day

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughan I did the most important things that needed doing. I dug in the snow to find logs. I cut the logs into 6-foot lengths. Got them out of the ice…


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Dec 27 Frostbite in Seconds

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are. Wim Hof   Wow just went out to chop the few logs left. The wind was blowing, I was only out there a matter of minutes. I filled the snow bowls, then I filled the sled with every scrap piece of wood and…


Boxing Day

Every morning that I wake up and I’m breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, ‘Thank God I’m alive for another day.‘ Ron Cephas Jones Cutting wood done for today. Breathing was extremely difficult. I got the wood to the chopping block, grabbed the saw and machete and went…


Christmas Day 2021

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. Jeremy Irons -42 they say. I went out and filled the big stainless bowls with fresh snow to melt, scraped off the solar panels with the machete I brought outside to fend off a bobcat…


Christmas Eve

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. Lucy Larcom Merry Christmas. I just finished cutting enough logs to get me through Christmas, if I ration. While transporting them I got winded so bad I worried about my heart. Chainsaw idling to keep my predator at bay, I rested on a…


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Dec 22 Helper

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. Jesse Jackson   Yesterday almost attacked by the biggest bobcat I have ever seen, last night an anonymous helper pushed up some logs out of the snow with a machine. I went out wearing  my bathrobe and winter boots to see what was done. I…