Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2013
The aspens are already gold, and with winds kicking up today as weather moves in, I thought I’d better take a picture while the leaves are still attached. Absolutely adore this time of year, getting ready for winter.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2013
Our low temperature yesterday morning was a hard frost at 27F, and we wondered if the hoop greenhouse would be up to the task of keeping plants alive at that temperature. We waited until afternoon when the day had warmed up to a balmy 55F and then ventured down to the garden to see how […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2013
So, we’re used to mouse rodeos, though they are less frequent these days now that we’ve tightened up the foundation and reduced access points into the house. Poor kitty, no real mice to play with, but that’s another story. This morning we were having a rousing game of fetch with Mishkin, using his toy mice. […]
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2013
More strawberries were ripe than we thought there’d be. We picked a slicing cucumber, enough pickling cucumbers to make a jar, and a sprig of dill for flavoring. Also a bell pepper and an anaheim pepper joined the harvest. The bowl of peaches was a gift from Susan yesterday, and it is destined to become […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2013
The last couple of weeks we’ve been enjoying the garden produce a lot. I’ve been making on average 3-4 quarts of dill pickles a week from the three cucumber plants. So far I’ve made 15 quart jars of pickles. The Anaheim peppers were wonderful in breakfast scrambles. There are still two peppers on the plants, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2013
I wanted to do a pencil drawing of this Arctic Fox stealing a goose egg ever since the first time I saw it.