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Here Comes the Sun

February 18th, 2014 · No Comments · rural life

The temperature outside was -5 when I got up yesterday morning and a cool 59 degrees in the house. The fire in the wood stove had died hours earlier. But the new day dawned with a cloudless sky. As an experiment, I decided against lighting a new fire in the stove in order to see […]

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Cat Heaven

February 17th, 2014 · No Comments · rural life

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Wood Stove All-Nighter

January 23rd, 2014 · 2 Comments · rural life

With the thermometer stuck at -10 and wind chills dropping to around -30 degrees Fahrenheit, I decided to feed the wood stove overnight. That means sleeping on the couch in the living room with an alarm clock set to go off every hour and a half. For some reason, I didn’t need the alarm clock […]

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