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…
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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…
2014.
Happy New Year, friends and neighbors! The kids got to stay up until midnight last night to jump into the new year. I was worried about them even making it to midnight, but it turns out they were just fine. The adults, on the other hand, were dragging just a little, especially me. I was…
daddy used nintendo 2ds. it’s super effective!
How do you glue a first-grader to the couch? You give her a Nintendo 2DS for Christmas: She hasn’t moved from that spot since yesterday morning. We had a low-key Christmas here at Castle Frostbite. No house guests, just the four of us and the doggens. We had our traditional Christmas feast of Surf &…
many christmas. such presents. wow.
With all the pre-holiday busywork around the house, I totally forgot that this month is our six-year anniversary as the liege lords here at Castle Frostbite. We came up here in December of 2007, in the middle of the first big snow storm of the season. I got the moving truck stuck at the bottom…