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Tell Him Not to Feed the Bears

Tell Him Not to Feed the Bears

But there he was, busy pulling, twisting, adjusting, exchanging one tool for another from his leather belt in an easy motion.

800 Words on Maple Syrup and Wiper Fluid

800 Words on Maple Syrup and Wiper Fluid

You may be thinking, is he really postcarding about washer fluid behavior?

February

We made it. February. Now the year can really begin.

Home Again

It is good to get out of the woods now and then. Even Huck would agree.

November

November 11 29 24 349 PM0:00/318.01752834467121× November scored first this season with one power outage, one tree down across the driveway, and five inches of snow. The outage happened while we were away for the night, which made it impossible to know how long it lasted. When

Thump, Thump, Thump

Thump, Thump, Thump

The sun pours through the sliding glass doors, spills over the floor, and each day it does resolves every question about having a dog.

Michaelmas

We celebrated Michaelmas—the feast of the Archangel St. Michael, as well as his compatriot Gabriel (I think also the other Archangels)—by pulling up our carrots.

Labor Day Weekend. Already.

Labor Day Weekend. Already.

The steps to our hillside garden are not repaired. The felled wood is not all cut up and stacked. The dock is still waiting to be treated with teak oil.

Photo by Behnam Norouzi

August

These are the sultry days of deep summer.

Independent, Inching Forward

Independent, Inching Forward

Soon you have the sense you are talking about the same things, which is when it hits you . . . you have only inched forward.