Harrowing road construction, check-up, and other random things
Last week the fall colours were really brightening up in town as the night time temperatures are plummeting. We turned on the oil monitor heater...
New Years Eve: Fireworks, friends, and hot fires
by Lisa
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When you gather at a gold mine for New Years Eve, you’re doing it wrong if you don’t have hundreds of pallets on fire, a...
Today I slayed more of the hoarder within…
by Lisa
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If you’ve ever mailed me a letter, card, invite, postcard, or even stuck a note in my high school locker, I still have it. Today,...
Nov
02
2014
November’s here, fire, ticks, shopping, and a new bed is on its way
by Lisa
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November is here, time to start heating the house! Jeff threw a load of wood down the basement walkout stairs yesterday and I stacked it...
Feb
14
2014
Today started at 4:50am…
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There I was, sitting in my massive travel trailer, getting ready for a nap, hoping my company would leave so I could see if the...
Feb
03
2014
New camera, burned some paper, and a word or two about the crows
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First, an update: Burned so much history, receipts, tax statements, pay stubs, and invoices yesterday. About 15 years worth. Felt fantastic! Also newsworthy from...
Dec
13
2012
Let me be the first to coin the phrase “big ball of yawns”
by Lisa
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Way overdue for a blog update. Here’s a quickie: I have freezing cold hands right now – I need to be a more committed to...
Oct
25
2012
First fire of the 2012 heating season
by Lisa
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I caved. 14 degrees and cold in the house. Time to start a fire. If we had a wood stove on the main floor we...
Mar
29
2012
Aye aye aye! Fire is taking forever tonight
by Lisa
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Fire is taking forEVer to get started tonight. Probably because the fire was dead out and I had to bring in the wood from outside....