A Living Magazine - Tap Root: Days 188 to 196 - Gato y Coyotes

My neighbors again asked me to look after the cat that I'd lived with before Christmas. Gato (the cat I originally took care of at Christmas time--the reason for being in the cabin) was back! He took over the cabin again...

Gato will jump on me at random intervals each morning to wake me up.

It had rained heavily and then dipped back down below freezing since I'd last been at the land. I wanted to see how things were. I was afraid that water had settled on the ground as ice and possibly also on the roof of the canopy. So, I was not surprised to find what we'll see next and why I decided to handle it as I did... 

Ice from the canopy, which had to be cut in order to prevent the future risk of collapse.

Things on the land were now fated to the deep freeze until I had tools to break up the ice and build a new inner tent--something like this...

This would sit under the outer canopy and would not need to hold snow.

It is simply to keep an inner area dry for the small tent to be set up there.

It was all receding into the future. There was little I could do about it now. I needed to focus on writing my blog posts and finally attending to the books I've wanted to write. I walked back to the cabin.

One morning I woke up and made some coffee, then walked over to the window in the door. I saw some movement to my left. It was right on the snowmobile trail, but much smaller than a machine. Right in front of me, a large (I think) male walked along the trail...

A lone coyote walks by.

Gato meows in the background, knowing something interesting is out there.

I sat down and opened all the files of my various writing projects to review them and possibly continue any that seemed still plausible. At the same time I was running out of money, I was also finally in a position to really delve into these book projects.