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JC Summars
Dec 5, 20241 min read
Snail's Pace Within Stone Walls
Recent rain totaling seven inches overnight caused a little localized flash flooding, some of it topping out at eight feet, flowing over...
JC Summars
Nov 26, 20241 min read
Simple Normalcy
With significant portion of long-overdue compensation finally remitted by FEMA, normalcy of life is in sight at last. No more letters...
JC Summars
Jul 12, 20241 min read
Forestlander
Although I'm still looking at parcels across the nation, I've pretty much decided the next homestead must have plenty of well forested...
JC Summars
May 26, 20241 min read
Snake Eat Snake Fail
When I saw this my immediate reaction was surprise, then disgust and finally wonder. I resisted an urge to disturb the eater just in case...
JC Summars
Feb 11, 20241 min read
First Tasmanian Visitor
The visitor wasn't a bot. That's about all I know except the city of access and the day they visited the web site... Now if only someone...
JC Summars
Dec 10, 20231 min read
FEMA PRESUMES I AM A LIAR
In reporting my losses in the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, FEMA is treating me as though I am a damned liar intent on fraudulently...
JC Summars
Jul 24, 20231 min read
Desert Drencher
100º F at the top of the escarpment, a distant thunderstorm midway between Punta del Chorro and Mesa Huerfana offered prospect for...
JC Summars
Jun 25, 20233 min read
Becoming Woodsmanshiply
Before purchasing Los Veranos it was obvious it needed tending to. Its forested portions were far too dense, somewhere between five to...
JC Summars
Jun 11, 20232 min read
Baldfaced Endorsement
This is exactly as I posted to Google Reviews: I yanked open their door a couple of minutes before closing time with Skye–muddy and...
JC Summars
May 19, 20233 min read
Sky's Half Acre
Badly wounded when I hit it with the bush hog while mowing the adjacent area outside the fence, it made its way into Sky's half acre to...
JC Summars
May 3, 20231 min read
Outlawn
Talking a few days ago with my brother about my search for a new parcel of wilderness property to replace the one destroyed by the United...
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