More bobcat visits. Three nights ago it was particularly outrageous. Because the night before I saw tracks which went back and forth in front of my house which were laid down between 8 p.m. and midnight, the following night I made it a point to shine a flashlight into the night every fifteen minutes. At [...]
Tag Archives: winter
The Felis Absconditus.
16-Mar-13The Elusive Friend.
08-Mar-13For most of this winter my cabin has been surrounded, continually, by the tracks of a four-footed carnivore – whom I have yet to see in the flesh. He criss-crosses the property, sometimes crossing my lawn multiple times per night. I have seen his tracks go under my extension and through the middle of my [...]
Tracking the Wildcat.
04-Feb-13Sometimes I hate the fact that I don’t wake up about an hour before dawn, when all the animals are doing interesting things. I woke up yesterday morning and went to the spring for water, when I saw an unusual set of very clear prints in the snow. All the local carnivores (except the bears) [...]
A Winter Day.
02-Feb-13The day started sunny and cold and bright, good woodcutting weather, and I ended up bringing in something like nine bags of wood today. This is a good day’s work. I split some black cherry, which is so beautiful that I often feel a little bad about burning it. It supposedly takes the knife and [...]
Cold Spell.
23-Jan-1334 degrees inside the cabin when I got up this morning. Don’t know how cold it was outside because it was colder than the thermometer’s range – it just said “LO”. Somewhere below zero. I had to defrost a block of mozzarella yesterday just to eat it – despite keeping it indoors. I thought about [...]
Winter in the Cabin.
01-Dec-12For the past week it has been consistently cold and wintry here in the cabin. There is snow on the ground, and I have to walk in from the road; my dirt driveway is now closed off. Snowshoes are not required yet, but snow that has fallen is starting to pile up. I spend some [...]
Fixing the Wood Stove.
15-Dec-11A 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 [...]