“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” — Annie Leibovitz

Here is a variety of photos for this week to memorialize this week.

Sunday, 01/29/2023: Posted photo — I Can Breath.

The temperature is going to drop at weeks end. To keep our house heated properly, I cleaned out the stack to out wood stove. Over the last week, we were burning more wood than normal to keep the house warm. This created more creosote than normally produced since we were burning low, warm, fires to keep the how warm during the power outages.

Monday, 01/30/2023: Posted photo — Turkey Tracks.

During one of my walks today, I saw these turkey tracks. Looking at this photo now, I wish I would have put something down to show the relative size of these tracks. They do have a very big gait.

Tuesday, 01/31/2023: Posted photo — Blocking Clouds.

There is a comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), or the green comet, in our solar system. For most days, there has been cloud cover when you could see it. Today was the day I was attempting to see it, but once again, there was cloud cover. I will try again in the next few days, but it will be cold.

Wednesday, 02/01/2023: Posted photo — Splitting Tools.

Preparation for the artic blast, I was taking some of our firewood and splitting it into smaller pieces to extend our supply of wood. We are in no danger of running out of firewood, we still have a few cords remaining. This is a photo of our awl and the hammer I use to split wood.

Thursday, 02/02/2023: Posted photo — Sponsor.

It has been a few since we had a polar plunge. I did a plunge called Plunge for Preemies, to which I was a sponsor. This is my photo company name next to the remembrance of my aunt and one of my cousins. We had a preemie back in 1992, one of my other cousin’s children lost a child and started to work for Project Sweet Peas. I witness the plunge the first year and then took it every year from the start to 2020 when the plunge was canceled.

Friday, 02/03/2023: Post photo — Temperature Dropping.

At the start of the day, the temperature was in the high to middle 20 degrees F. At the end of the day, the temperature was -14 degrees F. That is not as cold as it was on the summit of Mount Washington. The ambient temperature was -45 degrees F with the lowest wind chill every recorded on earth, -108 degrees F. I hope nobody was hiking on the mountain last night.

Saturday, 02/04/2023: Post photo — Fire.

Keeping warm today as the temperatures raise slightly above zero degrees F.

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