Question for a river pilot: navigation
Last night marked the solstice, the longest night of the year. People gathered at the lighthouse, and we built a fire in a chimenea outside on the deck. Hot soup, mulled wine, spicy hot chocolate. To ...
Chickadee close encounter
While tidying up the kitchen, I heard a thump at the window. I put my face close to a window pane and looked down. On the snow below was a chickadee, stunned. I went outside to check on the bird. It s ...
Halcyon days
A door needed repairs. I don't have adequate workspace at the lighthouse, so I took the door over to Dock's. He has a nifty shop, which is heated by an old pot-belly stove. When I arrived, Dock was e ...
Question for the keeper
I wonder how many keepers kept written logs like that when the job was more common. Maybe you can find earlier versions of you from a century or two ago. Initially, I was inspired to start keeping a ...
Blanket of snow
This is what the lighthouse looks like after a snowstorm. Last night, I measured 9 inches of snow outside the front door. The snow started yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, sitting by the coalst ...
More steps
In answer to a question, I recently posted that the lighthouse has a total of "thirty-nine steps" (which is also an Alfred Hitchcock movie). However, an observant reader pointed out that I failed to ...
Two loons, one eagle
Two diving birds swam together in the creek. I observed them through a scope to get a closer look. Upperparts were gray overall with white underparts. Their bills were pale gray, and the feathers on t ...
Question for the keeper: how many stairs?
How many stairs to the top of the tower? No doubt this counts as a Frequently Asked Question. It's uncanny that the question has been asked by fiction-writers on two separate occasions. Each author h ...