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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Not a bad place



I’ve been very fortunate during these interesting times to have a place out in the country.


This view of New Hampshire’s White Mountains is from my lake.




There’s a bit of smoke haze from the western fires, but not too bad. Right now it’s still probably some of the best air in the country. Where my younger daughter lives on the west coast it’s super smoky. She’s had to put her lights on in the middle of day due to the smoke blocking out the sun. At least her place is not currently under direct threat. However, she’s been told by authorities to pack an emergency bag in case.


I also feel for all the folks dealing with a very active hurricane season. When you run out of names for storms you know it’s a bad one. They then will go with Greek letters. Hope they don’t run out of those. What would be next? Disney characters?


While we haven’t have the fires they’ve had out west, it’s been a dry summer. A friend of mine who works for the Forest Service as a firefighter did a 21 day stretch without a break. Fortunately the fires have been small, but there have been a lot of them. Most have been started by campers not putting out campfires properly.


There are a lot more people out in the woods taking advantage of free dispersed camping. I even ran into a good sized group of people doing official bird dog trials. Normally they’d meet in Maine, but due to Maine’s 14 day quarantine requirement they relocated the event to New Hampshire.


Summer’s nice weather allowed for us to socialize outside with people. Winter might get a bit grim. I’m going to avoid being inside anywhere but my house and maybe a few essential short term shopping trips. Whatever it takes to stay healthy. Might even skip the shopping trips.


Frankly, I don’t think I’m going to mind being snowed in at all. It’s hard for people to riot in a blizzard.


-Sixbears


7 comments:

  1. Glad you and yours are enjoying the woods. Can't really beat a nice forest to give one a sense of peace and isolation.

    Unless it's a forested island on a big lake.

    Maybe with a small keep or old stone gun battery. :)

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    1. Isolation is good these days. However, if you have off-grid electricity and high speed Internet it's really good.

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  2. I'm not for riots, but they do get attention now don't they?

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  3. When you've described your little lake in the past. I've always envisioned more of a large pond. That's an area large enough to have a good time sailing your O Day.

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    1. We enjoy many an afternoon sailing around it. It's also fairly deep, about 60 feet. The boat ramps have been crazy busy with people from out of state. It's been nice to just be able to walk down the hill and go sailing. The sailboat doesn't seem to bother the loons so they come close and we've had an eagle all summer. There are worse places to be.

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  4. Re this winter, what about your lungs? Just have to spend as much time inside as possible, with a humidifier?

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    1. I've been wearing an RZ mask for the last few years when out in the cold. That helps a lot. Inside we keep the humidity up. It helps.

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