guy t. schafer
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- May, 2013: My old chainsaw helps me turn a tree into 4 foot logs that fit in our tub sled. I put the rope around my waist and pull the loads out like an ox. I try to get 1 cord out every year even though we need 4 cords for a winter--I buy the other 3 cords cut, split & delivered. Why not take more free wood? You cut, pull, buck, split, and stack a cord of heavy, green hardwood...then ask me that again.
- Apr 23 - 26, 2013: Trip to Pennsylvania on business for Littleton Precision.
- 2013 maple syrup season
- Feb 28, 2013: To get the 32 images used in my 10-year review of my Villeret, I had to take more than 300 photographs.
- Feb 23 & 24, 2013: Two more days of front-yard skiing.
- Feb 12 - 20, 2013: Trip to Florida on business for Littleton Precision.
- Feb 10, 2013: Ski day! Our work this fall clearing a ski slope has paid off. A perfect day of front-yard skiing.
- Jan 3, 2013: My wife snapped a picture of me cleaning the cars in my light cotton shorts and socks even though it was -16F (-27C).
- Jan 1, 2013: My shocked neighbors caught me during some cold-tolerance training.
- Dec 25, 2012: Even though I got new shoes for Christmas, I went hiking without shoes.
- Dec 20, 2012: Whatever you do, don't hike like this.
- Nov 28, 2012: Designed and built a new paper sculpture installation.
- Nov 19, 2012: Time for my biannual haircut.
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Nov 17, 2012:
We were invited to a party so we tried to make more
cider, hoping to get
bragging rights to the latest pressing ever. We found a few apples
left on a tree despite the snow and we hoped the hard frost would
concentrate the sugar of the very tart crabs. We even added a few
market apples to cheat a bit and we got a single quart. Then a
few hours at room temperature to blend the flavors.
This didn't work: The cider was undrinkably bitter. - Oct 28, 2012: A guest from Maine helped us press cider. Three grocery bags filled with Mac drops gave us almost 2 gallons.
- Sep, 2012: Coding up a storm for Littleton Precision. Too much fun!
- Jun 26, 2012: Bears are hungrier--and peskier--than usual because of the early spring. They breached our turkey pen, and despite our daily repairs, they managed to do damage each night. We think racoons took advantage of the breaches. We lost our 2 hens, one per night. The tom lasted 2 more days. After many years, the turkey population on our lot is now 0. This means Zak is now unemployed!
- Jun, 2012: Usually firewood harvesting is a fall and winter activity (when there are no bugs). But a windstorm broke one of our mighty 2-foot diameter maple trees (that diameter isn't much for a field tree, but in our dense forest it's one of the biggest maples around). Been cutting it up and dragging out the firewood by sled.
- May, 2012: Got a gig as a professional photographer seven days a week until July 3.
- Memorial Day, 2012: The electrical wiring has been run inside the new workshop. The new panel is fed by underground feeder from the house. The 150' trench required a lot of digging with a pickax and garden trowel (to minimize forest impact).
- 2012 maple syrup season
- Feb, 2012: Cutting firewood for next winter: a few standing dead maples and cherries, and a few live maples and yellow birch. I cut them down (using the open-face notch method) and buck the logs on the snow. My wife and I take turns pulling the sledfuls to the woodshed by hand.
- Jan 23, 2012: I captured, killed and hung our tom. My wife plucked and dressed it. Check out the before and after pics (don't worry, no "during" pics).
- Bathroom remodeled: Walls repainted. Toilet, sink & faucet replaced. Shower restored.
- Christmas 2011: I'm selling my IWC Portuguese Chrono.
- SOLD in 3 days!
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Thanksgiving, 2011:
This is Zak, my new border collie.
- Fall 2011: Work continues on my watch workshop.
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Aug 25, 2011: Got a software engineering job offer from
Fairbanks Scales.
- Did not take it.
- Aug, 2011: Redesigned professorguy website.
poetry & essays about New Hampshire
portraits
These 3 self portraits were taken with 3 different cameras.
Working Self Portrait (webcam)
Cold Self Portrait (1MP point & shoot)
Warm Self Portrait (dSLR)
