A part of me likes this. After all, if it’s cold as hell outside and snowing besides, everyone’s excused. Down to zero tonight or close to it, real numbers-don’t-matter-we’re-all-frozen-dead territory. Vehicles, house, your own damn self: if something’s not fixed right, tomorrow it’s broke. The cat’s going crazy from being inside. Sniffs at the threshhold [...]
winter
You know, I’ve never been to Hawaii
The snow is beautiful, but for some reason this year I don’t seem to care. Not yet, anyway, and certainly not this Monday morning. Maybe fourteen years of digging out, hacking at icy windshields, and slopping through the mud and slush have done their job. Here in Taos, this attitude will get you zero sympathy [...]
The wood stove is your friend
You can figure out how much there is. Maybe half a foot in places, but who cares except the pros? I don’t mean that in a bad way, it’s just something I’ve noticed in myself. Since moving to northern New Mexico fourteen years ago, I’ve seen so much of the stuff that the nominal depth [...]
She came here once and loved this house
It was several years before she died. In the Christmas package from Austin was (among other things) a little red wind-up AM-FM radio with a solar panel for recharging. I’d always wanted one, and there it was. She must have known or guessed right since she knew me. A radio for someone in the boonies [...]
Parking far away to not get buried
We’re in the midst of some pretty grim weather for New Mexico. It snowed a little Thursday night, just slushy stuff, after a good long rain. Friday morning the clouds were down to tree-top level and stayed there all day. The air was wet and cold. You couldn’t see the mountains. The dirt road was [...]
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