Sanary-sur-Mer A few nights ago, I dropped a log into the wood stove from the top, and it split in half the iron grill which separates the wood compartment from the ash compartment. I suppose it should be welded together, or replaced, but doing so means taking the entire stove apart, including the flue, and then […]
Category Archives: winter
Fixing the Wood Stove.
15-Dec-11Mountains in Winter.
12-Dec-11Snow Indeed.
28-Oct-11Snow!
27-Oct-11Ivrea We’re supposed to have snow tonight. Probably nothing like the 16″ we got on October 28th three years ago, but we’ll see.
Back in the mountains.
10-Apr-11I returned up here a week ago. It’s been a very busy week, working at the nursery and dealing with the practical problems of wilderness life: getting water from the spring, prepping tools, tending the fire. Relatively simple tasks like cleaning or cooking are far more labor-intensive when you are getting all your water from […]
Spring!
23-Mar-10While it’s certainly likely that we’ll have a bit more snow – and I see 20 degree temperatures in the forecast – the snow is now almost all gone. Yesterday it rained all day, and I watched it eagerly, thinking – “It’s rain! Water! From the sky! Not snow! What a miracle!” I would look […]
Slow snow melt.
19-Mar-10As I came up here I saw one thing which told me almost everything I needed to know about conditions on the ground in the Catskills: I passed the Neversink Reservoir and saw that it was not yet overflowing. That meant the river was not flooding, which meant the snow had not melted yet. That […]
The Neversink.
13-Mar-10March weather in the Catskills. Come quickly, spring!
Power.
02-Mar-10On in the valley, at least as far as the fire station.
Winter on Staten Island.
22-Dec-10The Staten Island book is a selection of the many essays I wrote about Staten Island life while living there. Not all could be fit into the scope of the published book. The following one, “Winter,” is one of four essays on the seasons; Autumn is found here. WINTER Who never ate his bread in […]