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The Tiny Entrant

We all get pretty excited about a warm day, after so much rain and socked-in, characterless, muzzled skies…

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Convergence

We weren't sure but it was probably about after where we saw the tree on the deer camp, we started thinking about boundaries…

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Gived-up Country

A place so odd, you stop to absorb what's not right about it, disconcerting & pleasurable all at once…

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Never Dull

The fire's gone out, neglected while I was busy turning mountains into molehills, which is often what I'm doing…

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Out & About

Out & about with the old ridge runner, feeling it in my bones, as well…

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April Daze

A softer wind tonight, and as I raise my axe to try my luck at splitting, it blows my hair all around my face, which feels good…

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Fence Removal

I bought new wire snips after my old pair rusted shut, & set off for the barn, to take down a section of old fencing…

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Trapped

You gotta wonder sometimes, who could possibly think up the things we have to live through…

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Little Grant

Maybe its just my mental state, but I feel like I have too much on my plate…

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Good Use

The turn back to cold, which I did not appreciate, none-the-less firmed up the dirt road, and allowed the sled to be pulled overland to the yurt, chock full of stove wood…

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Ridgerunner

Sometimes we have to work hard to like ourselves, eh? …

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Muddy Times

The arc of my day unfolded in simple chapters: a trip to town, a quick walk up to the washed out culvert, countless mental miles, and a few emotional ones…

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Snow Blind

This storm last Saturday buried half the state…

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Dragon Brook

For ever day I live, I'd like another day, just to read…

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Carl

So the neighborhood cat is named Carl, & when I arrived here last spring, he'd been billed as "feral"…

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Late Arrival

It's hard to even describe how beautiful people are…

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Topo

In sub-zero temperatures, I sorted boxes at my storage space, looking for a specific cardboard tube of maps…

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Soul

We zig zagged our way, one in snow shoes, one in boots, up a logging road, then a gully, skirting a sugar bush, to where it leveled off, and the view turned from south facing to north…

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