Little Bluff cabin cam January 31 - rain all day yesterday but we just have clouds and high winds today - HAPPY SUNDAY!

Journal updated on the 27th

Shhhhh, don't tell anyone, but after months of agony and learning how to do it, we just completed the ebook version of the original CLOUDLAND JOURNAL ~ BOOK ONE and it is now available on AMAZON - CLICK HERE.. (this is a "Kindle" version but they have a FREE APP you can use on pretty much any device including cell phones, tablets/pads, and even your normal computer. This is kind of a test - we have no idea if it will be the first of many or the only ebook we do, we'll just have to wait and see how well it is received (or not). If it works we do plan to release a CLOUDLAND JOURNAL ~ BOOK TWO (as an ebook only). FYI, we still have a few copies of the original hardback book that we published in 2008 that you can order direct from us here (autographed, of course). Both versions are the same price, $9.99 each (original hardbook price was $24.95).

NEW GUIDEBOOK BY THE OZARK SOCIETY - we have them back in stock - click here to order

01/01/21 Light freezing rain early today at first light, and the landscape was covered with a thin layer of ice. We got up early and hiked up the hill to the office as usual just like any other work day with one exception - it is a YAKTRAX day! Those are the little metal ice crampons that we attach to our boots to allow us to travel across the icy surface.

01/03/21 It’s 5am and the landscape outside is GLOWING! A brief blizzard at dusk yesterday left about 1/2” of snow everywhere, and the just-past-full moonlight is reflecting on all that white, creating a sunglasses-required scene.

We’ve gone through landscape changes three times in as many days, beginning with the heavy ice that appeared early on New Year’s day, then continued to build all day as a light mist built up on the ground, trees, and each and every twig and even individual pine needles. The forest sparkled in all directions with every step. And it was nothing short of magic hiking through the woods, although we needed to wear YakTracks on each boot to keep from sliding on the ice.

Along the way we discovered one giant pine tree that had come crashing down across the trail, along with several other large limbs and other trees - mostly pines. The big one was kind of sad since it was one of the tall, straight, mature pines. The reason pines were the main damaged trees are their needles - the ice formed on each needle made the limbs so heavy. Other trees only have naked limbs and so not as much buildup.

Speaking of pines, once we stepped into the woods there was an immediate scent in the air. While it was clearly the result of pine limbs being snapped off, it did not smell like pine lumber does, which I happen to love - fresh-cut pine. It was different somehow - if it had been a sound I’d say it was higher pitch - how do you say that in an aroma? There are parts of our property with no pines and the scent was not there, but as we would begin to smell that scent we knew there was at least a large pine limb that had snapped off somewhere nearby. And sure enough, there always was.

Then the temp got just above freezing in the early afternoon and it all the ice began to melt. As the melting began the ice loosened on small branches and individual pine needles and the thin coating of ice that remained began to slip and fall to earth. It was raining ICE! And while it was the soft kind of ice you get at Sonic, there was often a big slug of it raining down all at once and when it landed on top of your head or on an arm it kind of hurt - THUMP!

Within a couple of hours all the ice in the trees and most of it on the ground had vanished. The forest was no longer crunchy, and moving through was once again silent. But then you would look up and see a large green area that still sparkled - broken off pine limbs on the ground with piles of ice still clinging to the needles.

Early the next morning (yesterday) we could see clouds of snow approaching - they were like fog, only they were fine particles of snow marching across the landscape. For a time the landscape way on out there was be engulfed with the snow clouds and disappear, and when the hills and ridges would reappear they would be snow covered once again and gleaming white. Everything around our cabin remained mostly brown for a while, but eventually we too got hit with the snow fog clouds - it was like we were inside a snow globe, and then all was white around us too (see thee big pine tree below). By afternoon it had all melted away and we were back to mostly brown all over.

And then we were hit with the mini blizzard last evening and with temps in the 20’s all night that light snow covering remains this morning. It was a perfectly crispy-clear night last night though, and before the moon rose I made a couple of trips up to the office in the dark, but it wasn’t really dark at all - starlight reflecting off even a light layer of snow is pretty magical to hike through - and since there was no wind it was perfectly silent. Oh so DELIGHTFUL!

So far we’ve had quite a fluid beginning to the new year with not only the back and forth of white and brown, snowy and bare landscape, but also of a good bit of moisture added to the landscape. There were times a couple of days ago when there was actually a roar of water running off the hills as the snow and ice melted, all of that was feeding the creeks and eventually waterfalls - yippie for WATERFALLS!

It’s a half hour before sunrise now and the horizon all around is glowing ORANGE with the approach of a new day. There is so much orange that it looks like someone below the horizon has thrown an entire bucket of orange and it’s oozing upwards towards the pure-blue sky, with Venus still shining brightly. I’ll setp out onto the snowy deck and snap a photo, but somehow phone cameras just don’t capture the mood, so I’ll probably just post a photo of some snow at sunrise...

01/07/21 We got some REAL snow today - up to 8" on the ground and in the trees - one of the mmost beautiful snows I've seen in a long while!

01/12/21 Snow melting today in the open areas...

01/14/21 We watched this scene change and develop for 30 minutes this morning. The sky above the horizon, the thin band of clouds, sky above that band, and the clouds on top all were changing colors the entire time - it was quite amazing! This super-panoramic photo includes so much of the scene that it’s all squeezed together to fit here, but the real life view took almost constant observation back and forth to see it all.

We’ve had a snow-covered landscape on our ridgetop here for much of the past three weeks, and all that WHITE made the world much lighter at night - even with nothing more than starlight it was light enough to hike through the woods without a flashlight. This past couple of mornings I was puzzled how DARK it was at 5am - until I realized that the snow had finally mostly melted and so everything was darker, like it normally should be, haha.

01/16/21 Yesterday Pam said it looked like someone tore open a giant bean bag chair and spilled the contents all over the landscape! We had several different types of snow yesterday, beginning with a few wet flakes drifting around. Then the wind picked up and soon we had a real snow shower that was coming down in waves. I snapped a pic of Godbeams shining through. The winds were howling and the snow turned into pellets, some of them approaching what I call “snail” in the high county out west in the summer - snow that has compacted into BB-pea size hard pellets - and if you’re not wearing a hit they can sting hitting a bald head!

The snow pellets/bean bag chair contents were blowing horizontally at times to heavy that visibility was limited to the next tree in the forest! It was amazing how it all came from a day that began with pure-blue sky. By nightfall some of the pellets were covering parts of the ground, even building up in drifts at the bases of trees. The wind chill was pretty low - teens or even below.

When we woke early this morning the landscape was once again lighter due to being covered with snow and reflecting what little light was coming from clouds. We ended up with about an inch of snow pellets in some areas, while other areas remained windblown and bare.

I spent part of my day yesterday working on our dog fence around the outside of the mile-long loop trail here. I finally got the fence netting stretched around all of it and now am going back and attaching the netting to trees and small fiberglass posts. It was the sort of day when I wanted to wear gloves because of the wind chill, but also could not wear gloves since I needed to pick up and handle nails to attach parts of the fence netting. Since I have that condition of low blood circulation in my fingers they remained numb most of the day, but I managed to get a lot of the fence secured. It felt GREAT to be outside in the mini-blizzard working!

Lots of computer work for me today, and more fence work - not nearly as much wind and no blowing snail - I’ll still need an excuse to take refuge inside with my feet propped up in front of the fireplace though. HAPPY SATURDAY TO YOU!

01/18/21 Color began to creep into the clouds about an hour before sunrise, building and spreading far and wide until the colors were so intense that I just had to get up from my easy chair and run out into the yard to take a picture - it was a wee bit chilly since I was only wearing my underwear - it's gonna be a great week - HAPPY MONDAY!

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01/21/21 Uh, oh! Maybe sommeone should whisper to this heirloom daffodil at the old home site here that it is still WINTER!!

01/27/21 Snow on the ground again early this morning - I had to turn an outside light on to verify what I was seeing as I peered out in the darkness. It’s not too deep, but the ground is covered, which makes this winter the most actual “ground snow” we’ve had in I bet ten years or more (enough snow to make tracks in). I’m a big fan of snow, although I prefer it by the foot, but a thin blanket is better than nothing (looks like an inch so far today).

It has been SO LONG since I’ve written here, I’m hoping to cover some ground at the keyboard for you before daylight appears and I go make some tracks in the snow up to the office. Probably a lot of short bursts of info, but I’m hoping it will help get me back into the groove. As I go about the day - especially outside - there is a constant stream of thoughts and visions inside my head that I make mental notes of “I need to put that into the Journal!” Most of the time there ends up being so much to talk about that it seems overwhelming and so I end up writing nothing instead. (I could easily spend five minutes writing about a leaf I found, or a bug I ran across, or the aerial display of crows I watched along the way.)

So much of what we do here is not about being enjoying the great outdoors, but rather being inside, at the keyboard, going about the daily life of trying to eek out a living. Computers are TERRIFIC, but also gigantic time hogs, hahaha.

A good part of our past couple of weeks has been spent working on our first e-book. What at first seemed pretty simple and straightforward turned into layers upon layers of dead ends and frustration as we tried to learn the system of formatting and publishing an e-book. We started with the most basic book that we put together and published in 2008, and FINALLY got the e-book version completed and uploaded and available for sale on Amazon just a couple of days ago - the CLOUDLAND JOURNAL ~ BOOK ONE. Lots of times we got delayed whenever we paused to read something in the book, and then an hour later realized we’d been reading part of the Journal for an hour! There really is some amazing stuff in this book, which of course was the very first year’s worth of posts of what started out as the CLOUDLAND JOURNAL, and continues today as the LITTLE BLUFF JOURNAL (when I actually post something).

We’ve decided on Amazon and their Kindle version of e-books for the moment, but may eventually spread out to Apple Books and B&N, etc., but for now we’ll see how Amazon does. One thing I did not realize at first was that the Amazon Kindle version can be read on pretty much any device - phones, pads, readers, and even a normal computer - all via their FREE Kindle app (i. e. you don’t need a Kindle reader). AND you can also GIFT this e-book to anyone with an e-mail address and Amazon will send it to them. I like that part.

This new e-book is almost 100% reflowable text (1/4 million words - there is only one graphic (a historical map of the Cloudland property and immediate area) so it is quite easy to read, even on your phone - something I NEVER thought I would EVER do! (turns out it is quite easy, even for a geezer like me - reading a book on a phone). Here’s the link - CLOUDLAND JOURNAL ON AMAZON

FYI, if we get many sales of this first e-book we hope to publish BOOK TWO as an e-book in the near future. And also probably an e-book version of THE SEARCH OR HALEY. It would be great if we could get all of the guidebooks as e-books too, but that would require a monumental amount of work since those are graphic-heavy and we’re not ready for that yet - maybe next year.

Our mile-long loop trail here has been getting a good bit of traffic as I continue to tweak the mesh dog fence that is now complete all the way around. It feels GREAT to be able to get a quick mini-workout while on my way to or from the office or cabin - I simply take the trail and keep going on around until I get back to the beginning (1.1 miles), then I can hike the driveway to my original goad, making the trip 1.35 miles instead of just a quarter mile. It’s been nice getting to see water in the creek and waterfalls here, and oh my goodness all the moss-covered boulders have been BEAUTIFUL with all the moisture we’ve had lately! Once in a while I’ll come upon a figure approaching in the woods that turns out to be my lovely bride - YIPPIE! She also hikes the trail a lot.

The pups seem to recognize that the fence is to keep THEM inside, and so far we’ve only had a couple of escapes (our goal is 100% containment so we still have a lot of work to do). But really, can you blame them? Growing up as a kid and young adult in the woods of Arkansas I NEVER saw an armidillo - didn’t even know what they were. Then I started to see them along the roadsides, on their backs, and often with a pair of sunglasses and a beer can (frequent joke when someone find a dead armadillo on the highway). But 20-30 years ago they moved up from Texas and can be found just about everywhere now. One good thing is that they don’t like cold weather, and so usually burro into the ground to spend the winter here. But NOT THIS YEAR! I’ve never seen so much armidillo activity - not only dead ones along the highway - but LIVE ones along our trail! Nothing gets our dogs more excited than an armadillo - it’s like DOGNIP or something and they lose all reason. I’ve had to rescue the pups several times - literally by snagging their collar with a hook on the end of a ratchet strap and drag them out of the hole they chase the poor critter into, then drag them far enough away that they forget. After all that, it’s kind of funny - both pups will have “armadillo hair” for a couple of days - not sure if this is some liquid coming from the critter, or from the mud created during the struggle.

Anyway, the past couple of days I’ve come upon the pups stopped on the trail, both staring into the woods beyond the mesh fence, watching one of the silver beasts works its way slowly across the hillside over yonder. FYI, dogs aren’t able to do anything to these armor-plated critters - their teeth can’t penetrate.

Yesterday Wilson went missing, and after a long search that included two full laps of the trail I found him sitting on the ground on a hillside (inside the fence) - he found part of a deer leg somewhere and was quite a happy camper just sitting there chewing as the world went right on along all around him.

We got a call early the other morning from our neighbor to the east - their land meets ours (below the “boulder jumble” and they have a nice cabin, but we can’t see their place. SUPER nice folks, like almost everyone around here. He had been looking for one of our mutual property corners and wondered if I could help. I leapt up from the couch and ran out the door, heck YES! I’ve only been to this corner once - it is located in a very rugged and remote spot that is pretty tough to get to, with hundreds of mature hardwood trees stacked like matchsticks across a near-verticle hillside in the way (all knocked down from the great 2009 ice storm). I met up with our neighbor and his grandkids and we found the corner in just a couple of minutes - right where I remembered it would be, can you imagine that! It was wonderful to not only see that part of our property again, but also to catch up with our neighbor. Seemed kind of odd yet perfectly normal now to have four guys out in the middle of the woods all wearing masks.

One day last week on a very cold day after spending a couple of hours working on the mesh fence, I realized a glove was missing - almost a brand new glove, although it only cost me $5. A search commenced along the stretch of trail I had been working on, and both my and my lovely bride looked and looked and looked. Then I looked every time I made a lap around the trail - that darn glove had to be SOMEWHERE in plain sight! It did not help that it was a brown glove about the same color as ,most of the gazillion brown leaves that covered the forest floor. I FINALLY found it YESTERDAY, while cleaning out my van to make room for a pallet of books I had to pickup from FedX in Harrison - I have no idea how it got into my van...

One quick 3-part shipping note and then I have to run - I’m already out of time! First, we received a package back from the post office recently (had been in transit for a month or more). It was a wall calendar envelope that had been torn open - the very TOUGH sealing tape we used had been removed in the process. The calendar actually was still OK, but what we found INSIDE the big envelope that had been resealed by the postal service was shocking. There was a FIRST CLASS bubble mailing envelope inside, still sealed and with the mailing label intact, that had been shipped from a company in New York to an individual in NEBRASKA. WHAT?????? How in the world did that envelope get INSIDE our damaged calendar envelope? (there were two tea bags and a tea spoon in the envelope)

While more than 98% of all packages we shipped during the holiday season have arrived just fine, we actually continue to get a few just now being delivered to customers - turns out there are still HUNDREDS of trucks all over the country full of mail waiting to be delivered by the postal service. And we have received a couple of picture books back - that were shipped in early December - that were unopened but refused by the receiver - these were Christmas presents and the gift giver didn’t give them a heads up I guess, and so they were sent back to us. I guess it’s not a good idea to open packaged addressed to you anymore?

And #3, until the national postal service crisis gets resolved we have made the decision that we’re only going to ship orders via Priority Mail. The normal “Media Mail” service (usually 2-3 day delivery within Arkansas) is mostly what’s clogging the system and often taking weeks or even MONTHS to be delivered, and we continue to eat the cost of replacing and reshipping these packages. Priority Mail is still not guaranteed to be delivered in a timely manner, but at least it seems to be moving better.

OK, time for a smoothie and then we’re off to go dashing in the snow on up to the office - if we can find the way - right now it’s still quite dark outside. HAPPY WEDNESDAY TO YOU!

01/28/21 Frozen but colorful at dawn!

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