Random musings on my vagabond existence in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania and wherever else life takes me. Rachael is away with her girlfriends for their annual Fall trip to the beach, and so I’ve spent the past five days by myself at the mountain house with only the two dogs as company. The weather has been lovely. I mowed the lawn and the walking paths. I swept out the garage. I put away some things for the winter. I went fishing. I read books. I listened to Classica

Random musings on my vagabond existence in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania and wherever else life takes me. Last weekend’s big snowstorm, and all the hullabaloo in the runup to it, put me in mind of the old days growing up in the 1960s and 1970s when foot-deep snowstorms were not the exception but the rule. Back then we went into winter expecting to get at least a couple big storms that would close roads and bring our rural Pennsylvania neighborhood to a standstill. It

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