Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2014
Picked a bunch of different things today. Butterhead and Romain lettuce. Quite a few green beans. A small bowl of strawberries, the last of the year we think. A couple of small Walla Walla onions. A Roma tomato. A couple of small Anaheim peppers. Around seven pounds of beets. Lemon Basil, and normal Basil. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2014
Today we picked the first batch of Green Beans and Yellow Wax Beans. Also we picked another bowl of strawberries. Having fresh strawberries in late August is a really good reason not to replace the bed of ever-bearing strawberries with the June bearing variety. I will just freeze this batch of berries for winter. On […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2014
He didn’t get this big by being overly confident. He didn’t like the music, or the sidewalk. There is a young doe (last years’ baby), that goes through our place on the same track this buck is following. I imagine he’s following her. Fall is coming.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2014
Finished sewing 10 yards of lace around the bottom of my dress I started making a bit ago. Our digital camera doesn’t pick up the correct color of the fabric, which is a teal green, not a teal blue. Oh well. Dan says I should use a different film in the camera 🙂
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2014
The plants are growing well, now that the sun angle is down and the temperatures don’t get too hot inside the greenhouse. The wild grass all around us is turning brown, and some bushes and plants are starting to show fall colors. Won’t be long now! My favorite season is coming up. A couple of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2014
In mid June we went to Glacier National Park to visit our old stomping grounds and visit Diana. She raises alpacas and llamas, and has a fiber processing mill. We walked out into the field where all the female and baby alpacas and llamas hang out. Diana was calling to them to come over and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2014
I had a dress that I used to wear all the time, and I wore it so much it just sort of started to disintegrate. I packed it away for a rainy day, so to speak. Then one day I decided I’d try to re-create the dress by taking the existing dress apart and using […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2014
We picked six cups (almost) of our first harvest of Josta Berries, and I made jam yesterday. The berries are very firm and hold their shape, so first I cooked them until they were softened, then I took a potato masher to the pot and tried to crush all whole berries. For the most part […]