Why did I hold out for so long? The stove is fantastic! The house is filled with warmth. The oil heat doesn’t kick on. We have a device a friend had given us that provides all kinds of climate information including indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity. Next to the indoor temperature reading there is [...]
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What a fool I was…
Posted in Home on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Of mice and traps
Posted in Home on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everything looks different in the dark. We take the path through the woods at least twice every day, but just now, as I tried to make my way in the dark, I wandered off the trail several times. Koa could have guided me, but she went no further than the top of the hill—leaving me [...]
New York City rain
Posted in Home on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am in New York on a rainy day. The rain isn’t heavy, but the wind renders the umbrella fairly useless—at times you can’t keep it up because of the gusts; when it does stay up, it simply doesn’t provide enough coverage since the rain is coming from different directions. On a day like this [...]
Practical warmth
Posted in Home on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Practicality has finally won out. We bought a wood stove today. Our fireplace is in the half of the house built in the 1740s, and it is quite large, with a beehive oven to the side of it, and an iron bar that swings out, for hanging cookpots. For seven winters I have enjoyed roaring [...]
“How I’d leave in autumn I never will know.”
Posted in Home on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite songs from Camelot is “If Ever I Would Leave You,” which Lancelot sings to Guinevere. He runs through each season, saying that he couldn’t leave her in summer, autumn, winter, or finally, spring: “How could it be in spring-time?/Knowing how in spring I’m bewitched by you so?” It is a beautiful [...]