Well, Readers, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about the topic I’m sure you’re all dying to know more about: the composting toilet. As the saying goes, that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. And we’re still here. If you compost your garden waste or kitchen vegetable scraps, you probably already know that…
A Note from Chris: The thing about living in a yurt in the middle of nowhere is that every task takes three times longer than it should. In fact, I haven’t seen so many curveballs since my ol’ baseball days. The list of projects is long and never-ending—like building a shed for firewood and the new…
Happy 2012! Chris and I just returned from a traditional Austrian Christmas vacation, where we visited Vienna, Prague, and Salzburg. We had a wonderful time seeing the sites and traveling by train through the Czech countryside—but no matter how bucolic the view outside the window, our minds were never far from Polebridge and that day…
"Get ready for a wet, wild winter in 2012!" says the Farmer's Almanac. It'll be "clime and punishment ... a season of unusually cold and stormy weather." With that in mind, and knowing that the yearly snowfall here is normally about 100 inches, we put a dent in splitting, storing, and tarping several cords of firewood today. We also,…
Postcards from Polebridge 