Seems like it's easier to write daily during the week, and when I'm at work. Makes sense. I'm lucky to have that spaciousness at work. It does mean I'm not going to the field, but my excuse is that a little fire showed up on the wildfire map across the road I was going to take into the bush today. We've had some rain, but fires have been moving ( Read more... )

There was smoke high overhead in thin ribbons today. Was going to drive up to Sakeniche with work but my bush partner got called to work on the fires along with a bunch of my office; part of how government maintains fire capacity when fire seasons are so unpredictable is that it expects to draw trained firefighters at will (foresters all have some ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first field day I've led in awhile at work. I had one of the summer students with me.It got some stuff done but wasn't super productive; we're learning to estimate lengths and diameters from 7.5cm to 50m or so in various configurations which requires lots of guessing then measuring. It's easy enough to just to measure first, but ( Read more... )

Okay. I've been avoiding writing about this because writing makes it true, but: basically the chimney in my house is failing. That is, the system which provides my home with heat cheaply and effectively is not real safe to run right now. When I bought the house I knew the wood stove was relatively new; what I didn't know or guess was that the ( Read more... )