The O-Zone

What does four cords of firewood look like, besides a lot of work? The Larch is the best for mid winter, holding a fire overnight, and producing the most amount of heat.  The fir is prettier to burn, very frisky and lots of snap, crackle, and pop.  It sounds really cheerful.  And produces almost the […]

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The end of September and all of October were sort of a blur.  The house didn’t get painted and we’ll have to wait for favorable weather next year, May, June, July.  Somewhere in there it should stop raining with warm enough nights that we can get that project finished. Now we’re waiting for snow to […]

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The house improvement is moving along well.  It’s sounded like living inside of a thunderstorm, with a few earthquakes thrown in for good measure.  It hasn’t been particularly restful but for the most part the work has been outside of the house. The original plan was to saw up all the old siding and use […]

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The new bat house arrived on Friday and I’ve decided to name it “The Belfry.”  I was gonna name it the “Bat Hilton” or “Bat Regency” but didn’t want to be hassled about copy right infringement.  Besides, this way if somebody tell us we have bats in our belfry, we can just say, “Why, yes […]

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Our contractor friend came this morning to begin the project of replacing all the original wood siding which had been improperly installed and was unpainted and had no finish at all to protect it from warping or weathering.  Like Dan says whenever we started doing a project like this, “It’s never too late to build […]

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Pickled beans. Haven’t ever tried to make this before. Each jar gets a dill flower head, and a hot pepper, both of which are from our garden.  The yellow pepper is a yellow cayenne.  We’re hoping this isn’t too much hot peppers but we’ll find out in a few weeks. I made three pints a […]

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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.  […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 🙂  

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