Fixing the Date

The phrase “fixing the date” has always seemed a bit odd to me, but I’ve always understood its meaning. This year, however, we’re using it in the sense of repairing a mistake. This Christmas season, we’re literally fixing a date.

If you’ve followed this blog much, you know that holidays are very important to us, and that the Christmas season is perhaps the most important of all. Our Christmas holiday, stretching from the day after Thanksgiving to January 6th each year, encompasses a list of major and minor holidays. This list includes one or two we’ve made up ourselves, such as our beloved First View.

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If It’s Chilling, I’m Stilling

As our cold snap lingers, we burn the woodstove all day long. I’m using this to our advantage by setting up our juicer as a still on the woodstove’s burner top.

I’m not distilling alcohol. That would be illegal, as well as dangerous. I’m distilling water for the battery bank.

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The juicer, distilling water on the woodstove (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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