It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks […]
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Polebridge, MT: Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
No doubt about it. The weather outside is frightful. The National Weather Service is calling for a windchill of -52 […]
Polebridge, MT: Frost-n-Squash
The glass of water on my bedside table hasn’t frozen. Yet. But the evening mist now leaves frosty geometric patterns across […]
Polebridge, MT: What We Did This Summer
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the […]
Polebridge, MT: The Grasshopper and the Godfather
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. —Don Corleone, The Godfather: Part III Here at the yurt there’s always a […]
Polebridge, MT: Sodbustin’
If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. —Thich Nhat Hanh In the two years that […]
Polebridge, MT: Moving Day
Here come the earth movers; They’re coming to take it away. Topsoil, spruce, stumps, and weeds; Oh how we’ve pined […]
Polebridge, MT: The Bare Necessities
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]
Polebridge, MT: The Welcoming Committee
After four months in Italy, we’ve finally returned to the yurt. If our first trip out to the property is […]
Polebridge, MT: We’ve Moved! (For Now)
As you might have guessed, living in a yurt without running water in freezing temperatures is bearable for only so […]
Polebridge, MT: An Arborophile Copes with Dendromania
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, […]
Polebridge, MT: Pride Goeth Before the Fall
I’m glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. —Chris G. Fall is here. The tourists are gone, the […]
Polebridge, MT: Under the Dome Alone
“Oh no, don’t do that,” my mom said when I called to tell her that I’d be staying at the […]
Polebridge, MT: All the Pretty Gills
Fly fishing for trout: for me it’s not about catching a lot of, or big, fish. It’s about so much […]
Polebridge, MT: Butter-and-eggs
Flowers are the earth laughing. —Ralph Waldo Emerson As the undisputed “Crown of the Continent,” Glacier National Park is grand, […]
Polebridge, MT: Heat, DEET, and No Retreat
Like much of the U.S. right now, we are suffering from a brutal heat wave. The highs are twenty degrees […]
Polebridge, MT: A Festive Fourth
Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone had a great time celebrating 236 years of independence from the Kingdom of […]
Polebridge, MT: That Which Doesn’t Kill Us …
Well, Readers, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about the topic I’m sure you’re all dying to know more […]
Polebridge, MT: Neo-Pioneers
The thing about living in a yurt in the middle of nowhere is that every task takes three times longer […]
Polebridge, MT: Square Foot Gardening
In a state as vast, remote, and sparsely populated as Montana, square-foot gardening may seem absurd. I know it probably […]
