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Category Archives: Off the Grid
9 Day Solo Winter Wonderland Adventure
The sun is rising over a very calm Lake Huron. Today begins, not only a new year, but a new adventure and challenge for me. For the next nine days I’m home solo. This is the longest I’ll have been … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Book, Cooking, Ice, Jeep, Nature, Off the Grid, Photography, Shelter Island, Sunrise, Water, Winter, Wood splitting, Wood stove, Writing
Tagged adventure, camera, cookstove, ice, Lake Huron, living off the grid, nature, outdoors, photography, snow, solar power, water, water conservation, winter, wood stoves
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#14 Well Behaved Woman
Thursday, June 17, 2010 I’ve been in a peculiar mood the last two days. Yesterday, Wednesday, morning it was raining strongly. We had torrential downpours very early in the morning. Because it didn’t look like it was going to clear … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Insightful Body book, Jeep, Michigan, Nature, Off the Grid, Photography, Shelter Island, Upper Peninsula, Water
Tagged camera, dissection class, mayfly, popcorn, raccoons, swimming, Well behaved woman
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#8 Missing
Thursday, May 6, 2010 “I don’t want to go,” Hugh told me this morning. “That’s something I’d be saying,” I silently mused to myself as I thought about how sweet it was that he wanted to stay at home with … Continue reading
Posted in Baltimore, Birds, Contra dancing, Cooking, Off the Grid, Shelter Island, Water, Wood stove, Writing
Tagged Agate, bench, cat, cormorants, Helen and Scott Nearing, merganser, piano, smashed toe, swimming
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#3 Which way will we go?
Monday, April 26, 2010 Today was the first day that I saw a person, other than Hugh, since I arrived a week ago Monday. One of the “fun things to do today” was to take a table to a little … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Off the Grid, Shelter Island, Walk, Water
Tagged canoeing, Lake Huron, walk
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#2 Midges and Firsts
Saturday, April 24, 2010 Midges are mating on my laptop! There’s definitely no lack of bugs here. Right now the midges are starting to peak. They are everywhere we walk. Initially I thought they were gnats, but was informed by … Continue reading
Posted in Laundry, Michigan, Midges, Off the Grid, Puddingstone, Shelter Island
Tagged canoeing, laundry, midges, outhouse, spiders
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