Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Wishing

Here's my friend taking off snow shoes, although currently she's practicing her handstand in Florida on the beach…

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Coincidental

I set out in the late afternoon, to ski my property line…

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Ron’s Return

The tractor trailer would not come up my road, with the door delivery…

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Dangers

When it's too cold to glue things up because you don't have heat in your building, you improvise…

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The Yard

I stood at the open warehouse door, just below the concrete landing three feet up, and the guy had disappeared again…

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The Plumber’s Son

I took the notch road, tired of the paved road's unpredictable ice patches, as well as my own ennui…

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More Snow

He who tried to get up here to day - and a couple did - met with a pretty stiff set of conditions, both on the snow front and most decidedly, due to wind…

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Slow

I was atop the Appalachian gap today in a storm of elevation, since down on the valley, it was blue skies and dry roads…

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Winter’s Fruit

It's that time of year, when the part of the wood pile that's bone dry takes its special place in the burning regimen…

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The Tool

Most problems are universal…

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Yuletide

It was almost Christmas, and I was driving north with “special cargo”, on an urgent mission…

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The Elements of Intrigue

When the ground thaws, you have to gain the upper hand again, for any jobs requiring a shovel…

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Townes

When I moved to West Corinth, VT in the 90s, to a barely insulated bungalow, in October, & found the wood stove door missing, with no back up heat, I found a new use for aluminum foil, and for that I was grateful…

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Team Majestic

Most of the snow was gone when I got up this morning, with temps already climbing towards their peak: 50 degrees by mid-day…

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The Couch

You wouldn't know it based on my dead-end status, but I live closer to a metropolitan area now, than I did…

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