There’s a pond about a half mile down the road, and when the weather is good, I grab my little Surface Go and head down there in the mornings to get a head start on the word count for the day. Right now it’s the start of the best month for using that outdoor office…
Category: castle frostbite.
Life in Upper Cryogenica, winter storm edition
We just had another nor’easter up here in Cryogenica, and this one dumped the most snow we’ve gotten so far in a single storm this winter. Here’s a picture of the total snowfall level–the ground was bare before the start of the storm. For reference, the Renegade has 18-inch wheel rims : (A month into…
The night the minivan died
So I accidentally killed a perfectly good Dodge Grand Caravan that was only three and a half years old and had 44,000 miles on the odometer. The details shall remain undisclosed, but there was no injury or body damage involved. Luckily, the insurance covered the total loss, so I was able to go out and…
The Spirits of Christmas
Robin gave me a neat holiday gift this year: an advent calendar of cocktails. Each day, she handed me a little numbered and labeled bag with ingredients and a recipe for a different holiday-themed cocktail. If you’ve been following my instagram feed, I’ve documented most of them there. The one in the picture above was…
Things a dachshund owner knows, #2,198.
This is why we tell guests and visitors to keep food items on the counters well away from the edges. People underestimate the vertical reach of a determined dachshund.
kitchen remodels are base and evil; also expensive.
I have a post about Sasquan and the events of last weekend in the works, and there’s a lot to tell. But it’s not quite done yet because I’ve recently discovered a new form of Introvert Hell: house renovations. Right now, we are having the kitchen remodeled completely. That includes gutting the old kitchen down…
avian squatters.
These little guys are currently costing me $5 a day. We rented a huge dumpster for our long-overdue major spring cleaning and attic junk culling. It costs a flat amount up front that includes the fee for dumping all the trash, and then $5 per day for every day we keep the dumpster beyond the…
Bitchwinter.
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…
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…