HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

  'The Amazon rainforest is being clearcut at a dangerous rate."    "The Amazon Rain Forest is truly the lungs of planet earth...

 No, this isn't about world events, fitle notwithstanding. I mean it IS related though...         I finally got part of what I've be...

 I gotta stop uding this blog as my ombudsman/fainting couch/tear-stained dear diary.  Every post lately has been about who/what failed me t...

 So this morning there's some training to do.          For assorted reasons, mostly legit, I have to do some supervisor training for boo...

 It took 14 days, but we finally had a cargo that came on smooth and pumped off smooth too.       It's been a bear this past tour. The w...

 This time we went 5 days without running water.  We just got it back, now that it's above freezing, but who knows for how long?  Long e...

    A gust of wind just hit us hard enough to be felt from inside the house.     It’s blowing a gale tonight here on HAWSEPIPER’s Aflo...