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Impatience this time of year is measured in inches.
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Last year, on this date, I set my first tap for maple syrup. It's a big deal for me. It helps break the tedium of winter days that sets in around early January. If the sap is rising in the maples, there is a finite amount of time left for winter to run it's course. …
Just a moment ago, there was a snow flurry. Yesterday, it was four inches. Not long before that, there were another four. And incoming is six to nine. I assure you that this is nothing like Snowmageddon, ten years ago, the April Fools storm before it, or the Halloween surprise. Of course, '74 puts them …
It's been unusually warm for October around New England. Typically, in October, we burn all the odd pieces that came in with the cords of firewood. The shorts, scrap, and assorted junk make for just the sort of fire needed as the weather cools down. We'll have a small fire in the morning to drive …
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Sometime around the middle of December, the activity in the shop will drop off. In contrast to just a few weeks earlier when the shop teemed with work, it now has a sort of calm peace about it.
Today I bid a fond adieu to my least favorite month.
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