Month: November 2020
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Back in Black
As a die-hard New Englander, I do not need four wheel drive. Good snow tires and good winter skills, plus a shovel, are all you really need. Mine ride on black steel rims. I used to use fancy wheels but steel lasts better. Sometimes I do run wheel covers; I haven’t found the right set […]
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Sisyphus
A man with a leaf blower is the modern incarnation of Sisyphus. Unfortunately wet leaves will only blow so far. Sisyphus didn’t have a snow plow though.
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Yee-haw
I had to shuffle some equipment between home and the farm last weekend. A childhood spent watching CHiPS and The Dukes of Hazzard always makes me a bit nervous to unload the trailer on the side of the road. And then that idea makes me giggle.
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2020.11.04 #NaBloPoMo
Confession: I’m enjoying the post-election hysteria. America is doing what it was designed to do. It seems more momentous this time because POTUS is a larger than life divisive figure and because Coronavirus makes everything life-or-death, but it’s really just democracy at work. Tomorrow will come, and we will have some sort of president for […]
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Barrier island (2020.11.03 #nablopomo)
One of the little joys of having a barrier island in my district is that we can get spectacular photos at both sunrise and sunset.
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2020.11.02 NABLOPOMO Haiku
Snow tires. Oil change. Leaves. November to-do list is The same ev’ry year
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2020.11.01 #NABLOPOMO
It’s November, and that means it is time to start National Blog Posting Month (#NaBloPoMo) again. We were surprised by snow on Friday. We were supposed to get ‘a dusting to an inch.’ The final result was 3″ of heavy wet snow. The motorcar was caught outside. I’d left it out while reorganizing the garage […]
Notes from Mosquito Hill 