Gratuitous Photo Post, Part One.
Meet my research librarian
She keeps me company while I write. The lamp is one of the very few things I have that belonged to my mother.
Map of Homestead
This is my crude MS-Paint map of where I currently live, just for perspective when looking at photos. All scale is completely approximate.
Fang's Impenetrable Fortress
Okay, it's not what it looks like. Fang is a cat who loves getting stuffed into things. Honest. Anyone in the house will back me up - make a bed, with her inside and under 30 pounds of blanket, and all you'll hear is the muffled purring. She kept stepping on the laptop in a bid for my attention, so in exasperation I rolled her in a towel and stuck her under my pillows. She purred her head off for half an hour before getting bored and wandering off.
Guardian of the Monitor
She sleeps here most of the time I'm on the computer, and wakes up every once in a while to help edit my thesis.
Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!
Fang is guarding the top of the ladder.
View from the back of the house
Privy, hay shed, horses. The boat's on the trailer.
Trees
Taken from the back porch, looking diagonally across the hill.
Front yard
Our only neighbor has lent us his skid steer for the week - Ekk's using it to clear the driveway out a bit.
The house
Note how it's shrinking. The snow is about 5 or 6 feet deep.
Two out of three
Arminius has been eating snow, which is why his tongue is sticking out. With that much tongue, there's the potential for a hell of a brain freeze.
Hauling firewood
Barb bringing a load of wood down from the hill. Ekk & I spent all day yesterday getting the boat dug out and on its trailer.
The Dude Abides
The Girls
I'm standing in the door of the hay shed, which is why I have their attention.
Winter carnage
The brush is all the tops of the trees we've cut for firewood. I've been trying to persuade Ekk to cut trees inside the Bowl, so we get more sun. We're going to have a great bonfire later.
Arminius
Also wants to know what I'm going to do in the hay shed.
Barb & Firewood
Several days' firewood stacked under the porch.
More to follow.