Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
The view from my window.
07-Dec-08Iterum in silvis.
05-Dec-08I returned to the cabin to find it 35 degrees inside (and this in mid-afternoon during the warm spell before the arctic front arrives). It had obviously been quite a bit colder most of the time I was gone. The cold damaged my Norfolk Island Pine, killed my basil plant (at left), and apparently […]
High of 33 degrees today, with intermittent snow. November in the Catskills. A day for splitting wood.
An October Surprise.
29-Oct-08I wasn’t expecting to get 16″ of snow before I even got to carve my jack-o’-lanterns, but apparently this happens sometimes in the Catskills. Slide Mountain, just a few miles away, apparently got 20″. I’ll be on foot for the next few days, until the (unplowed) road to my cabin thaws.