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Winter 2009-2010 pics #1

Jesse Taylor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:50:56 +0000

We’ve been doing a lot more video filming this winter than photo snapping … but here’s a few …

Stassj cooking veggies and polenta on the wood stove

Jesse sitting at the table with his silly looking fuzzy hat and a purple marker.

Marvin sleeping in his spot in the corner, next to his moose antler.

Cabbage feast

Jesse Taylor — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:30:56 +0000

Here’s Stassjy staring off at the mountains while we were out walking:

Stassj looking out mountains while out snowshoeing

Here’s me mesmerized by the fire in the stove:

Jesse tending the fire

Here’s a picture of a tree I took while I was hiking with the pups …

Mossy tree

Stassj made me live under the porch for about 3 weeks, and I didn’t have any food the whole time, except for old beetles and cocoons … this is when she finally let me out, and I got into the cabbage box:

Cabbage Muncher

Bucket baths and pooping buckets …

Jesse Taylor — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:06:04 +0000

And in case anyone is worrying about hygiene, we are very responsible in that regard.

Here is me taking a bath:

Jesse taking a little birdbath in a pot of water

We also have a big pooping hole outside … it’s just a big hole in the ground … you just walk out the front door and down this little trail:

Trail to the pooping hole

The pooper is in that big depression … there is a door over it to keep the puppies out of the hole … they love eating turds and then coming to give us kisses

The poopin' hole

But sometimes Stassj just does this … fittingly enough, it happens to be a kitty litter bucket.

Stassj pooping in her kitty litter bucket

She says that I am supposed to write that she does it because she has some weird foot fungus and doesn’t want to have to put shoes on to go outside … there is some truth to that. She does have burning red spots all over her feet right now … but I think that it has to do more with being a big old wimp that likes keeping her tooter next to a nice warm fire instead of baring it to the snowy winds

And she’s going to beat the hell out of me when she comes in for the spring and reads this … look at the freakin’ muscles on this girl:

Stassj showing off her monster biceps

Winter time … cabin

Jesse Taylor — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:20:10 +0000

In town briefly for personal reasons. Anyhow, I brought the camera with me to upload some photos of the goingsonandstoof…

So here are some shots of the cabin ….

Front of cabin in winter 2008

Back of cabin in winter 2008

And here's a shot from the pooping hole

Snazzy coats …

Jesse Taylor — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:06:06 +0000

Here’s a view from the hill behind the cabin:

View of the Mountains from Behind the Cabin

And here’s Stassj’s sexy new vest:

Stassj's Vest

And here she is, relaxing and reading with the poopies:

Stassj Reading on the Bed With the Poopies

And the kitchen … coffee brewing …. mmmmm:

The stove and "kitchen" in the cabin

Turkeys, Tooters, Sunsets …

Jesse Taylor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:14:37 +0000

This is from the road that goes up to our place …

The road to our land.

Earl and Marvin taking a break after a long day of playing chase with each other.

Marvin and Earl smiling together.

This is the cabin that we moved into when we first got there. Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. It actually is leaning over. It’s about to fall down the hill. We are currently in the process of moving all of our stuff out into the smaller cabin, so we don’t die when it falls on top of us while we’re sleeping.

The road that I’m standing in there is now a bunch of garden beds covered in rotting compost and straw and mushroom spores … at night we piss off the opening on the side of the porch there. During the day, I try to piss in the garden beds to give our little mushroom babies more nitrogen, and to balance the pH from all the wood ashes I’ve been putting in there …

Instead of having the fires inside, we have them in a firepit I made in the road … but it’s getting so cold now, that we’re going to be starting to use the woodstove again … sipping tea, sitting inside and reading books … I’ll post a picture of the “library” soon …

Here is Stassj wandering around with the water bucket … probably looking for berry patches. She’s always sneaking off to eat berries or truffles or something or other. Very sneaky.

Stassj with her water bucket, scanning the forest for berries.

This turkey was dinner (actually several dinners, lunches, and snacks) about a week ago — Earl (a.k.a. Mr. Tooters the Blue Tick Boogler — who is notorious for his stank-nasty Balogna Tooters when he’s under the covers with me) barked him up into the top of a tree and Stassj yelled for me to bring a rifle … it’s cold now, and all of the berries are gone, but in a few weeks it will be cold enough during the days for me to shoot a deer and stuff it’s carcass somewhere in the snow near the house. Then it will be meat night every night! The pups are really looking forward to this. Stassj has been feeding them oats and cauliflower to try to appease them, but it’s just not working. They want flesh!

Turkey time!