Aguascalientes 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: Life in the Catskills
Fixing the Wood Stove.
15-Dec-11Mountains in Winter.
12-Dec-11Hitch-hiker.
01-Dec-11Lurasidone mg I picked up a hitchhiker a few nights ago. I picked him up a long straightaway in the woods, where it was obvious we were going in the same direction. He said his girlfriend had hit a bear and for some reason as a result of this he had to walk home. Seemed a bit […]
A Sign.
29-Nov-11My boss sent me to the hardware store to get some fencing, and as I go out to the warehouse to pick up my order and load it into my truck, I see a sticker stuck to the door: Maybe I should take this personally. A close-up shot: Freud: precisely what you need.
Back to the supermarket.
19-Nov-11Was mildly depressed buying vegetables again at the supermarket this past week, after a good five months of growing all my greens. I still have some lettuce leaves left in the field, because some self-sown seedlings came up this fall, but in general the season is done.
Garden 2011.
11-Nov-11The long nights have kept me indoors more than usual, and I spent a little time reviewing photos from the course of this year. Normally, like most overeducated people (I suppose), I presume that I am a failure who gets absolutely nothing done whatsoever; which is generally true; but looking at some of the photos […]
Obvious, but still true. Up here I believe my spectrum of emotions is pre-modern, i.e. there is sadness, and there is grief, and there is loneliness, and there is regret, and there is pain, but not quite anything that could be called depression – there’s no such thing in the woods. You are penalized too […]
Sarah Womer, Ecopreneur.
31-Oct-11A friend in the area getting press for her work recycling electronic waste. I love it, love it, love it. Someone actually getting something done. We need to do something similar in the town of Denning.
Dawn.
30-Oct-11End of tomato season.
30-Oct-11My tomatoes performed well this year, producing fruit through October. Other growers had problems with some kind of late-season blight, which I think I avoided because I am so isolated from other growers. But diseases of this sort get harder to avoid the longer you grow things. I move my plants to new soil every […]