Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2014
This week we started the actual construction of the walls. Digging dirt is such hard work. Dan kept telling me the entire time that smart people don’t use shovels and pry bars. I’m not sure what that means 🙂 Today I’ve been watching to see when the sun will actually start hitting the greenhouse. At […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2014
Tuesday this week a truck showed up with a bunch of building materials on top of the flat bed. It doesn’t look like all that much stuff, really, but hand carrying it and moving it around would not have been very much fun. The first pile of covered boards is 2×10 cedar, a variety of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2014
He came back last evening, and we knew he was there because a riot erupted in the parrot’s room. The sun was low in the western sky but it was still about half an hour until sunset. I must have made some noise. I had gone outside around the house to take his picture. When […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2014
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2014
Yesterday I decided to stop fighting with my knitting graph and do something else with the project. So I cast on 18 stitches. I’ve thought about this project for so many years, it’s exciting to actually get started with the knitting part of things. I’ll alternate between knitting and spinning. I have 400 yards spun […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2014
Yesterday our first hummingbird of the season arrived, tanked up for a couple of hours, and then flew off to parts unknown. This was just the sort of weather we were dreading might coincide with the arrival of the hummingbirds. The snowfall lasted for a few hours, and then the sun came out, sorta, and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2014
This is at least three weeks earlier than we’ve ever seen this species. And he looks confused, seeing almost two feet of snow on the ground and nary a thing to eat. Maybe he’s just resting, heading to Alaska. Hopefully he can glean some suet scraps under the suet tree, which is a stopping off […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2014
We shoveled the sidewalks again, and Dan plowed the driveway. The driveway is getting really narrow, still wide enough for our Forester to get in and out but our neighbor’s Suburban would be in danger of getting into one of the snowbanks on either side of road. Having black and white and gray Chickadees all […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2014
Another inch has fallen, and if we get any more, like is promised by the weather forecasters, then we might have to plow the driveway. At the least we will need to shovel the sidewalk. A good day to stay inside, read a good book and play in the kitchen. The satellite weather picture has […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2014
It was still delicious 🙂