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Dec 22 Canada Post

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. John Lee Hooker Friday Canada post says the gen will arrive then. Saturday it says Monday. Monday it says Tuesday. Tuesday it says Wednesday. Yes I called Amazon and the post office. Amazon was more helpful. I talked to Paul who was…


Dec 21 No Gen

Awake at 4:42 AM The grader came this morning, my road is cleaned. I just need conformation that the new gen has arrived. Then get Gracie running and goto town. Canada post says its there. The ladies that work in the post office say its not. I went to the village then to town. Picked…


Dec 20 Keep On

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson Just when I was still patting myself on the back for getting my snowblower started and cleaning my driveway, it snowed again. I am not sure how much yet still dark here. First look with the light from my phone it looks substantial….


Dec 19 Snowblower

Hbm How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds. W. H. Davies The big snowstorm is gone for now. Miracles do…


Dec 18 63

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer Yesterday’s heavy snowfall warning, last night’s extreme cold warning. Now today another heavy snowfall warning, an additional 30 cm and another 6 cm on Saturday and to add to my morning more cashews…


Dec 17 Storm Warning

Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction. Mother Angelica Ended my night with ocular migraines, last night. Woke with night sweats at midnight. Headache in the morning. 8:41AM In the dim morning light, I can see we had some deep snow, and it is bitter cold. I fed my stray…


Dec 16 Perfect Storm

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. Reggie White I didn’t sleep most of the night. I was on a caffeine high without the caffeine. I got up at 8 AM fed the cats made hot water for coffee. I had hoped the headache I was experiencing was just a…


Dec 15 Polar Vortex Coming

Another hard night, hard morning. Cats are fed, snow is gathered for melting. And most important fire is restarted, the kettle full of water for coffee is on top. Looking at the sky this morning doesn’t look like snow.  It might even be clear enough to give the batteries a little charge. I will check…


Dec 14 The Snow

4:42 AM I actually got up an hour ago to feed the fire. No mysterious wake up except for the alarm I set on my android phone. And I snoozed through that for an hour. 9:12 AM Cats fed and watered including the outside stray I named big cat. It is very dark and very…


Dec 13 Powerless

In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions, man is powerless Jules Verne 8:24 AM before daylight. We all survived My old poorly designed woodstove, the one with a brass door hinge shoved in between the door latch and an aluminum c-clamp holding the air intake closed, made an 8-hour burn. It was 20 upstairs in the…