New Year’s Eve morning was the end of my month long stay in Powell, Wy. It was also -10F. The car’s battery was not happy about being nudged awake after a month of little use. That feeling of relief that only someone driving an old car while living in the path of arctic winds can understand washed over me as…
Blinded By The Light
The old adage that time flies when you are having fun is not really true. It turns out that time flies regardless. It seems like just yesterday that I rolled into Powell, Wyoming and now its already been a month. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t come across this realization in a fit of misery and boredom. I just can’t…
Where The Deer And The Antelope Play
My third season on the mountain has come to an end. Winter is predicted to be another snowy one but thankfully hadn’t settled in before I left. I was stuck in rainy season since Mid-October. After a storm lasting 3 days, I had 5 inches of water in my rain gauge. There isn’t much to do when it gets like…
One More Cup Of Coffee
It is late November and the road to camp ices over every night now. Only to melt out to a simultaneously slippery and sticky mud by the afternoon. t the risk of being overly dramatic, I have to say it is a difficult effort and a bit unsafe. I know because I have walked it 4 times yesterday and 2…
I’m alright
It finally happened, third times a charm, I finally got all my forms together and my application for a build permit for a small cabin was accepted. It takes a real load off since my well permit was going to expire in Mid November and I was going to have to go through a load of bureaucracy (and a bit…
Its A Long Way To the Top
I finally got all my cameras powered up and an SD cards with enough space to record a video of the drive up to my property. I only have rudimentary editing software so let me know if it sucks. YouTube said this video violates copyright laws so they wouldn’t let me post it in my preferred form. So the legal…
You Ain’t Much Fun
This summer has really flown by. Then again, I can’t remember one that hasn’t. As busy as I keep myself, there hasn’t been much to write home about. Just the daily grind of little projects that seem to get closer and closer to being finished but never really cross the line. It isn’t even like there is a big list…
Tell It To The Bone Digger
Not being much of a farmer, I really don’t know how big an acre actually is. I have tried to find a comparison that I can relate to. In my DuckDuck Go efforts (cause I don’t want the Google overlords to know that I am spatially unaware), I have earned that it is very similar to a football field. Being…
I got some wild, wild life
I can see the lights of the town’s only grocery store from my little slice of the mountain. Google says it is 2 miles away as the crow flies. As you know, I am not a crow so that isn’t a very helpful point of reference. Instead, It is about 5 miles to drive there. About half of it is…
Eye In The Sky
I have had a Drone for a few years but quite frankly it is really a pain in the ass to use. It is a relatively rare day up here when the winds are calm enough to fly. When the winds and my motivation align, there is the challenge of having all of the batteries charged. There are batteries in…