The Fall Festival of Wood Is Here!

Who needs a gym when you heat with wood! Stack it. Tote it. And burn it. then there are the large hunks that need respliting. Yes! who needs a gym when you heat with wood. Reservations for the Quarter Cord Stacking Challenge now being accepted...Don't delay, supplies are limited!

The Rangeley Boat

Four men examine restored wooden boat labeled Guide’s Grace

The Rangeley Boat could handle almost any challenge an adventurous 19 years old could throw at it. 

The Perfect Yankee Sweetener

Back in the early 1970s, I was introduced to making maple syrup by my first father-in-law, the Cap'n. Like many things the Cap'n introduced me to, they were duties more than pleasures. He wanted to do it, needed it done, or expected it, and my first wife ( the dutiful daughter) decided that Wes should …

Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Evil There Of

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

New England, We Are Different!

An anecdote that I favor is about a trip to New York City in the mid-nineties. I was still working as an applied anthropologist, and I was going to do a fast consulting job in the Seaport District. I flew in and grabbed a cab right out of the airport terminal building to my friend's …

Wildflowers

When we moved into our house, the first thing I dumped was the big bag of weed and feed. Generations may have occupied the house and ceaselessly been at war with the wooded bird sanctuary just past the old stone fence. No amount of weedkiller, fertilizer, or grass seed would create a thriving lawn there. …

Day By Day in the Woodland Garden

Trout Lily

There are a lot of nits I could pick with the various apps that litter my phone. And that includes the camera and photo apps. But my favorite features are that they date the photos, and they list the location. If I can't recall where that favored piece of public art is, I can search …

Take It, While You Can

Yes. I love New England, but I don't trust the weather! Trust me!

Playing In The Garden

Daily writing promptWhat's a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?View all responses Sshhhhhhh! Let's not tell anyone. And especially not the lawyers...they'd never understand! Well, OK, just between you and me then. My secret ability was adaptability. I was often thrown into situations by life and sort of asked to "make …

Spring? Ice Out!

Daily writing promptWhat is your favorite type of weather?View all responses I had to laugh a bit at the weather when I peered out the window this morning. Snow. Mind you, only a bare covering. But the temperature outside makes walking to where my sap buckets hang a futile journey. It'll be too chilly for …