I know it’s kind of gauche to bitch about the winter in New England when one chose to move and live here voluntarily lo these many years ago, but this winter is bitchworthy without further qualification. We have never had as much snow as we’ve had this year, not even close. It has never been…
Category: castle frostbite.
update from castle bleeearrgh.
Emails regarding the Space Marine naming rights will go out today. I meant to send them yesterday, but the Wandering Pestilence visited Castle Frostbite early yesterday morning. One of the kids started barfing at 4am, and it all went downhill from there. All four of us were laid up with one of those nasty 24-hour…
the hazards of winter.
A few days ago, I took the corner at the bottom of our driveway in a slightly-too-spirited fashion, and side-scraped a frozen snowbank. This is what I managed to do to the passenger side sliding door of the new Frostbite One: The frame took the hit without damage, but the thinner sheet steel of the…
winter boots for the grand marnier.
We moved to Castle Frostbite in December of 2007. The Castle has a driveway that is dog-legged and at a 5-percent incline that increases to nine or ten percent at the very top of the driveway, in the least convenient spot possible. I’ve been driving Grand Caravans since before we moved up here, and those…
novel the third.
Last Friday, I finished the manuscript for ANGLES OF ATTACK, the third novel in the Frontlines series. <insert tired “Hooray”> Now it’s going to go through the editorial ministrations, and after all the bumps and potholes are fixed, there’ll be the usual publisher magic done to it. I’ll share the release date as soon as…
rasputitsa.
Spring is great, because the snow melts and it stays above freezing at night again. Spring is not so great because the snow melts and it stays above freezing at night again. This right here is our road at the moment: New Hampshire’s four seasons are Winter, Mud, Blackflies, and Preparing for Winter.
well, hello there, spring, you saucy minx.
The snow is finally MELTING. I cannot overstate how great that is. I thought I was never going to be warm again. I know it’s a little obnoxious when someone who voluntarily relocated to New England complains about New England winters, but this particular one was a cast-iron bitch. To illustrate: we usually buy six…
bors, 2000-2014.
Bors, a.k.a. Booger Boy, a.k.a. Elder Dog, is no longer with us. He had a seizure of some sort a week ago, but bounced back to normal very quickly. This morning, it happened again, only there was no bounce. He went quietly in front of the pellet stove, the favorite doggy spot in the winter,…
a snow-related math problem.
Marko’s garage roof is a flat surface of 75×25 feet. If there is a uniform snow layer of 2.5 feet thickness on the roof, a cubic foot of lightly compacted snow weighs 15 pounds, and Marko just removed all that snow with nothing but muscle power and a goddamn snow shovel, a.) How much snow…
how do you say “feng shui” in danish?
Three of the most dangerous words in the English language: “Legitimate tax write-off.” We took some time to redo the office in the back of the house last weekend. I’ve been using the standing desk I got at the Borders going-out-of-business fire sale two and a half years ago, and it works just fine as…