Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2013
Well, we knew it was coming since we spent last week getting a place built for the cement to go. It’s a really neat system. The cement dry mix is in one hopper on the truck, and water is in the other, and they are mixed together at the site. So there is no waste. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2013
Can’t think of a better way to celebrate the fall harvest equinox than to go harvest something. The golden beets are going to be pickled and they are cooking on the stove at the moment. This is our first harvest of potatoes and it was like a treasure hunt digging in the raised bed and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2013
You’d think a fur coat would be sufficient, but he loves the wood stoves and was just delighted that we’ve been using the stove this last week. Today I’m finishing up the box of peaches, making five pints of cinnamon and peach sauce, and a batch of peach butter. This afternoon I will make one […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2013
Had an early morning visitor of the really black and fuzzy sort. Plums from the tree are all over the ground. The deer have been vacuuming up the plums for over a week, and now they have competition. He’s just a little twerp and he’ll be hibernating on his own for the first time this […]