January 13th, 2019 — Ice Age

Ice Age I’m writing a day early, while we still have power.  Tomorrow, my usual day may be too late. Or maybe not, the American and European models couldn’t agree on the storm’s path so I still don’t know if we’ll be just Biblical amounts of rain, enough ice to down any power line or…

January 6th, 2020

Recovery Things have been slow so far this winter and I am not complaining.  Warm weather means mud and mud means we can’t drive out in the fields to cut wood unless we want to leave big ruts, which we don’t.  But the wood shed is still pretty full so we can wait until colder…

December 30th, 2019– After Christmas

After Christmas The gift wrapping bags are all folded and stored for next year, the stockings have been emptied and I’ve packed all the food goodies away in a basket where I can’t see them so I can make them last and the pounds not gather on my hips. This morning I cleaned the chicken…

November 11th, 2019 — Hygge

Hygge It’s 5:30 in the morning and the thermometer reads 19 degrees.  That gave me a start for a minute or two but then I looked around me and saw a fire burning brightly in the woodstove.  My breakfast of cocoa and toast from bread I made, spread with butter. Real butter made from real…

April 29th, 2019 — How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck…

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck… This was our weekend, preparing for WINTER 2.0.  We had snow last night, at the end of April. I could understand snow on April 1st, but now?  Not so much. I’m very pleased with what we accomplished this weekend, some years the woodshed isn’t this full at the…

March 11th, 2019 — Transitions

Transitions It’s the end of winter, finally!  And that means a shift in some work.  Woodcutting will go on the same, the woodshed is half empty and I’d like to finish winter with a bit more in the bank.  But going out with the truck and chainsaw will have to wait for a morning cold…

March 5th, 2019 — Mid Winter Break

Mid-Winter Break I’m late posting this week because I was on vacation.  Twenty four hours of no frozen water buckets, icy walking, hay hauling or winter drama.  I look forward to it every year. In a series of events our tax person is now in Mt. Pleasant which is about 2 hours from us.   Which…

February 4th, 2019 — A Week of Winter Weather

I’m thinking there will be just too much winter fun to contain in one blog post so for this week it’s day by day. Monday: even though we’d taken extra care when we did chores Sunday we still had more to do Monday morning.  The wind was coming from the east so snow was blowing…

January 28th, 2019 – Winter Weather Warning

Winter Weather Warning I’ve given up on checking the weather forecast today because our snow total predictions depend on: is it cold?  How cold is it? Are we looking at the European weather model or one of a dozen others? And are we going by what it says now or what it said an hour…