Yearly Archives: 2025

Oddly broken plumbing 2025-01-28

Hurricane Helene, or maybe the ice storm after, broke off a woods spigot.

It was a little more complicated to fix than expected.

[Pipe pieces and fixed plumbing]
Pipe pieces and fixed plumbing

I got a replacement part and cut below the break. Continue reading →

Frozen cypress swamp with dogs 2025-01-23

Cold enough the dogs did not want to go into the cypress swamp, after the January 22, 2025, sleet and snow storm.

[Gretchen pokes it with a stick as Blondie, River, and Sky stay high and dry]
Gretchen pokes it with a stick as Blondie, River, and Sky stay high and dry

Honeybun did not even come down to the frozen water’s edge. River, Sky, and Blondie stayed out of the water. Continue reading →

Pond flatboat pine rescue with dogs 2025-01-01

After half an hour bushwhacking to get to the pond for the first time since Hurricane Helene, on New Years Day the dogs and I discovered something in a pine tree.

[Something in that tree, says Honeybun]
Something in that tree, says Honeybun

She said she meant to be there. Continue reading →

Removed: pine deadfall in back driveway 2025-01-14

That pine deadfall in the back driveway was in the way, so I removed it the next day.

[Removed]
Removed

These other logs also I recently dragged out of there with tractor and logging chain. Continue reading →

Pine deadfall, back driveway 2025-01-13

Update 2025-01-18: Removed: pine deadfall in back driveway 2025-01-14.

Could this be a problem?

[Honeybun and deadfall]
Honeybun and deadfall

I’ll get to it either today or tomorrow, so when something else falls on the front driveway we’ll have a way out the back. Continue reading →