Your Scribe took a furlough from the blog, but is now back ready for a verbose new season.

One reason I wasn't writing was that numerous subjects that I had planned to address were non-starters.

I had thought about writing about snowshoeing, but it hasn't snowed.

I was going to go ice-fishing, but there's not much ice.

And I don't travel to the cabin often, since I haven't gotten off the dime to put in lights. When it gets dark at 4:15, the choices of activities are limited.

But I will soon get a digital camera, and will start posting photos of the cabin, the river, and other topics I write about.

I hope to build up a readership of amateur outdoorsmen like myself.

(An aside: I have been thinking about Donald Murray recently. He was a writing teacher at UNH for many years, and the author of at least 10 books on writing. For the past half-dozen years I have read his column in the Boston Globe. I felt I knew him, for he wrote about things like his personal history and his views about "maturity." He recently died at age 82. I will miss his voice. That being said, I was impressed by his willingness to share his life and activities. That is in small part what I am trying to do. Many people love the outdoors, and this blog is an attempt to gather a community that likes to read about that part of Maine.
That being said, I think I will make my postings shorter in the future. Then I won't have to fret about having a "full idea" that I must develop. As I read blogs throughout the Web, I note that many are just six or eight paragraphs. We'll see....)

Resolution for this week: Call Bert the Builder, and begin making plans to put in a generator at the cabin so that I will have electricity this spring.

If that gets done, I will call a well-digging company to get estimates on a shallow well for fresh water . . . .

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