I tested my new sleeping bag last night

It didn't get as cold as I was expecting, so I ended up being overly warm for most of the night. I tried the new down bag inside a synthetic bag inside a bivy sack arrangement all on a thermorest pad. About 10 lbs for the sleeping set. I'd dug a snow-cave topped with a …

Yesterday morning, I woke up to snow! I guess winter is here

I am not quite ready for it yet, but I am not in that bad of a way all things considered. I've not tried to fire up the snow blower for the year, but I do have new snow tires. The shed has a roof, but no door. I have a new barrel for the …

The Feburary 2011 Blizzard

Hopefully it will prove to be ‘the’ blizzard. We just had the first blizzard in the new house. It was an experience! We stayed warm, eating freshly picked lettuce from my basement aquaponics system – can’t beat that, eh? Tuesday afternoon, I went home from work a couple of hours early. I cleared the 3 …

Shoveling my way to work.

So, this morning, on my way to work, I had to walk down the street. We got 5 inches of snow last night, and the sidewalks haven’t been shoveled, and the plows pushed all the snow onto them. So, I grabbed the shovel at the office on the way home for lunch and shoveled my …

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