After two months with a frozen water line, we have water!

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But our water line is still frozen. How can that be? My inventive husband saw that our spring catchment basin was nearly unfrozen and the water was pristine. Hmmmm. So he had me haul...

Our sunshine continues

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We are amazed at the sunshine we've been having lately after such a cloudy and cold, snowy November. It feels so uplifting to just walk around outside doing odds and ends chores. Will has...

When you live in the backwoods, you live by the weather

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The first thing we do every morning is turn on our little weather radio to see what the coming weather is going to be (or do to us!). And by that, we plan our...

We got quite a snowfall, but it won’t last

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A few days ago we got hammered with about five inches of new, very heavy snow. For a while, you could hardly see the woods around us. We knew it was coming but by...

Sorry not to have blogged twice last week

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But last week was a bugger! First of all, Javid ended up in the hospital in Duluth with another infection in his pressure sore. Although the pressure sore is less than a quarter of...