08
Feb
Walking on Ice
It is a superior feature of winter to be able to step onto a frozen pond or lake, and we have many of them. It is liberating.
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Jarvis Coffin
01
Feb
February
We made it. February. Now the year can really begin.
4 min read
04
Jan
Home Again
It is good to get out of the woods now and then. Even Huck would agree.
4 min read
30
Nov
November
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November scored first this season with one power outage, one tree
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22
Nov
Election Day
“The price of greatness,” Winston Churchill said, “is responsibility.” He was talking to us.
3 min read
24
Sep
Fall
Within a second of its release from a branch, an acorn falls to earth at the rate of approximately thirty-two
3 min read
20
Sep
Quiet Time
I finally went to the trouble of getting a canoe onto on body of water known as Carpenter’s Marsh.
2 min read
31
Aug
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.
4 min read
30
Aug
Chicken Barbeque
. . . nothing says community—or, Old Home Day—like a volunteer fire department and chicken barbeque.
2 min read
13
Aug
Harvest Jitters
For us backyard gardeners, this is the time of year we fear most for our crop. It is not like we have a super abundance to go around.
3 min read