I am happy to report that country 71 is checked off my list. Finally made it to Malta. Everything from here on is just gravy until I head back home went the winter weather gives way to spring. Getting to Malta was no easy feat though. I came down with a cold/sinus infection/ relentless dry cough just before I left…
The End Of 2023 Is Here
Winter came a couple weeks before the calendar said it would. Lots of snow but also lots of rain that washed it all away. Temps are hovering around freezing and humidity is staying at just this side of drowning f you take a deep breath. It hasn’t bee too windy though. It would be miserable to have a freezing windy…
Make Sense Of The Mess
It is feeling like I have overstayed my welcome up here. Except for a really wet weekend that rolled through a few weeks ago, November has been cold and damp. The property has turned into a cold wet mud pit. Nothing is drying out. No real snow to speak of for me yet but I can see the snow piling…
I Hate Hitting The Ground
It has come to that time of the year again. The days are getting short. The temps are getting low and I am getting tired. No more new projects. Just scrambling to finish what I have started. And being realistic, that’s not going to happen. I am just focused on protecting what I have done from the wet winter ahead.…
Who’ll stop the rain?
Early apologies for any typos on this entry. The batteries didn’t charge under the cloudy skies yesterday. I am typing this pre-sunup with fat thumbs in just above freezing temps on my phone keyboard. Definitely winding down the building season here. Fall arrived last week and kicked sunny dry weather to the curb almost immediately. The short wet cloudy days…
Those Drifter’s Days Are Past Me Now
It is convenient and inconvenient that I am on a wind hold at the moment. Convenient in that it is the end of the month and I need to get a post uploaded and inconvenient in that I still have a lot of work to do before the real wet fall weather settles in. Every day counts at this point.…
It’s Hammer Time
I have some new neighbors up here. They bought 20 acres with a little one room cabin a couple of properties closer to the main road then mine. They have high hopes of building a nice Log cabin soon and being able to stay for all but the worst of winter. This summer has been prep work for them. Getting…
The Dark Days Are Done
Building season is here!!! Time to move past the travel fluff pieces and put my back into it. It was a long time coming. I got back to town in early March and immediately hiked a mile through the snow to see how my little slice of heaven held up through the winter. I reviewed the security cameras SD cards…
Its The Final Countdown
This is part 2 of my Winter 2022/23 travel review. The European side. My travel itinerary was decided by my Frequent Flyer numbers. I have been considering getting rid of my Frequent Flyer credit card for years now. The add-on fees for a ‘free Ticket”were usually in the hundreds of dollars. I was surprised when I was looking for the…
The Road Is Open Wide
Heading Out: Well, Summer made a valiant attempt with a few sunny 80 degree days all in a row. That is just about perfect weather up here. But what fun is perfect? It has slipped back into the chilly wet spring that has long since worn out its welcome. There have been a few days where there was enough rain…