Years go by, and you get used to certain things. You stop looking closely, and so probably miss interesting little details.
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Category Archives: Natural history
The Snowblower Gets a Cupholder
Wow, did we ever get a lot of snow recently!
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This is a test of the emergency long-underwear system
I was out well before dawn clearing the driveway in the dark with the snowblower (which we’ve named Sparkles). It was -20 F but a good time to get it done because we were forecast to cool off a bit from just Crisp to Seriously Crisp and perhaps even Crisp Unto Brittle. In looking at the temperature now (-37 F), it was a good call. We’ve been sliding downwards all day, and we’ve now reached the point of “This is a test of the Emergency Long Underwear System.”
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Life in a Snow Globe
We woke up this morning inside a Christmas card.
Light, powdery snow piles up on branches in the calm air of Fairbanks, Alaska
This leisurely dawn photography sure is rough. Sunrise was at 1059 today. These are some shots out the windows of our snow-globe home.
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The Minus-30 Quasimodo Smackdown
We’re not wood snobs. If it will burn well, into the firewood pile it goes. So while cutting, moving, and stacking wood, some real ugly cusses get brought along in the process. They can screw up a good woodpile because they can be grotesquely misshapen, so I often put them on top. But where they really gum up the works is in the splitting.
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