{"id":521,"date":"2010-06-18T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:49:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:49:37","slug":"where-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Where I write"},"content":{"rendered":"

After posting the description of the desk where I wrote my journal from about \u201882 to \u201898, I thought I would do a description of where I write now.\u00a0 I\u2019m sitting on the right side of a small denim-covered couch, with my dog next to me.\u00a0 My journal notebook is on a lap pad. There\u2019s a second couch at right angles, and a table between which is covered with another miscellany of objects, not nearly so interesting as on my Grandmother\u2019s desk.\u00a0 There are books, a box of kleenex, a jar full of pens.\u00a0 I look out the glass doors to an unfinished patio of big stones.\u00a0 To the right, almost out of view, are three big chunks of granite, with flat sides, they are set up as a table and benches.\u00a0 At the end of the table is a statue of Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.\u00a0 On the left of my view are two poles intended for bird feeders.\u00a0 I\u2019ve hung many feeders there in the past, and the bears got every one.\u00a0 Now I just toss scoops of seed out on to the snow.\u00a0 What\u2019s fun about that is the chickadees and squirrels can eat at the same time.\u00a0 The bears have ignored this year\u2019s hummingbird feeder, but alas so far, the hummingbirds have too.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen one there only twice.\u00a0 Through those windows I have seen chickadees, bluejays, juncos, the occasional goldfinch, wild turkeys, squirrels and chipmunks.\u00a0 Once I saw a fox. This time of year I see rabbits, and the bears too when they deign to visit me.\u00a0 I had a mother with three cubs several days ago.\u00a0 There are wooden windchimes hanging on the second pole, they make a lovely mellow sound.
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In the house, out of the picture to the left, is my masonry stove.\u00a0 It operates on the same principle as a Russian fireplace.\u00a0 You build one big fire in the morning, let it burn flat out which is the most efficient way to burn wood.\u00a0 The hot gases circulate in a flue that goes all the way around the stove, and the heat is transferred to the stone which then radiates it slowly for the rest of the day.\u00a0 When I get up in the morning it\u2019s still warm.\u00a0 I have loved living with it.<\/p>\n

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