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| I might have made better shots but as I set up when they were much closer, an ambulance went by, siren wailing. |
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| Photo © Tom Walker |
My friend, author
Tom Walker, who watches this sort of thing, reported the first frost of the year today (8/29) at his home near Denali National Park. That's around 63 degrees North Latitude. I am at about 61.5 N so a little time yet. It did get down to 42 last night, though, so it's coming, but this week we are still setting heat records during the day. Still, I can almost hear that new snowmachine in the shed rumbling in anticipation. And on the drive to town, there were the sandhill cranes in the pasture stopping on their way south.
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And, look who showed up here,
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And half of that one-fifth are probably trying to write the great American novel.
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Just about everyone I know has used one.
This is mine freshly painted in June. |
Pretty fancy stove! When I first moved to Idaho, we had an oil drum stove in the middle of the living room to keep our house warm. It was pretty cold in there, but we were happy.
ReplyDeleteWe had a great stove in the 80s but after we sold that house it went through a flood. I have always wondered if it rusted out. I feel bad for the people who bought it and glad we had left! We didn't depend on it totally for heat but it cut our bill way down. It was a nice-looking black stove (maybe Vermont??) with bas relief animals on it. It is no longer made but I saw it on ebay.
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