Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2017
Despite losing badly this year in the rodent wars, the fruit plants are starting to produce ripe fruit. This morning when we went down to harvest fruit, we discovered that the ground squirrels had demolished the cucumber plants. Boo! So all we have left are onions and potatoes. Hopefully they’ll leave those alone but not […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2017
Air moving out of the north and west brings some interesting sunsets to the skies. No fires near us, this smoke is all coming down out of Canada. Dan saw a drama play out a couple of days ago. He had gone out to the greenhouse and a red squirrel hot on the trail of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2017
Yesterday an idiot who lives immediately south of us decided to start a brush fire. Had he had a brain, he might have noticed the wind rustling in the dry grass around his brush fire, and not started the fire in the first place. Hopefully he enjoys the large bill he gets from the State […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2017
We went for a walk this morning to try to beat the heat of the day, and can smell smoke in the air from a forest fire, one a long way from us. There was a stiff wind out of the north, bringing the smell to us. So, it must be summer. We were getting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 21st, 2017
Tonight the sun will have traveled as far north along the western horizon as it’s going to, and will start moving back to the south again. The Summer is beginning here with warm temperatures in the forecast for next week. We really need to put the shade on our greenhouse soon. Maybe tomorrow. We’ve been […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2017
Saturday we finished planting the greenhouse. We planted a couple of varieties of Anaheim style peppers, Jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, basil, carrots, beets, lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, and slicing cucumbers. The herb bed is doing well, except for the oregano plant which didn’t survive the winter. Dan dug that up the oregano plant I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2017
The outside of the windows are clean (at the moment), and I’ve been taking some pictures of birds out the window. Pretty soon, a couple of weeks, there will be fawns tottering around on spindly legs after their moms. I’ll see if I can get some good pictures of this years’ babies. It’s that time […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2017
It’s been a couple of years since we went down there, since the thimble-brained yahoos staged their occupation. Our friend Brandon wanted to get a “we survived the occupation” shirt or cup at headquarters, but they didn’t have one. Probably too soon to see the humor in that utterly moronic event. Malheur is our favorite […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2017
April 10th it snowed; and it did the same thing on the 11th. Then it melted on the 12th. And on the 13th we had a thunderstorm that dropped enough hail that it was still visible in the grass this morning. Must be spring. Had a new visitor in the yard, a hen Turkey. She […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2017
Not sure why, but Spring sure looks an awful lot like Winter outside our windows. Probably a good thing we didn’t go have the snowtires taken off the Legacy yesterday! Mish is totally into the whole Winter concept. He just wanted to know why I was flashing bright lights at him and disturbing his meditation. […]