Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2010
A cold snap is heading our way, below zero overnight is possible this next week. We’re looking forward to that, actually. It feels neat! Not exactly how we anticipated starting a Christmas Bird Count today, but we’re very glad this one is ok. We’ve had a bad week for birds hitting the windows. We’ve lost […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2010
Happy Winter Solstice! Now the days can start getting longer again. Time to start a new bird list for the new year. We have all the usual suspects around the house. It’s always fun to go for a drive and see who we can add to the list first. What’s really funny about this is […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2010
Winter sunrise today, painting the mountains pink with alpen glow. The clouds were also all pink, little puffballs stretching from one horizon to the other. They glowed momentarily and then fade to gray or white.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2010
December sun sets far to the south and west, through the trees. We haven’t been seeing much in the way of sunsets this month; lots of cloudy weather at the wrong time of day. Today we had a herd of Pine Siskins in the bird feeder, and a lone Evening Grosbeak was yelling at the […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2010
I just thought this was pretty, outside the sunroom windows. We were sitting in the room reading, and the sparkle kept catching my eye.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2010
I found a recipe for Cinnamon Rolls on the internet and they were good, so now I’m playing with the recipe. Grease a 9 inch glass pie pan and set it aside; pre-heat oven to 375F. Step one: Wash and dry an organic Orange, and then finely grate the orange peel, collecting approximately 1 Tablespoon […]
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