Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2013
This is the question being asked by our new pet hawk. Very tame, this bird didn’t mind me opening the door from the sunroom and stepping out on the porch to take a picture. Looks better than through a window which is still in desperate need to cleaning.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2013
An eventful couple of days. Lots of thunderstorms, close lightning strikes with down pouring rains and cool weather. We picked our first batch of pickling cucumbers on August 3rd, and made four quarts. In another week or so we’ll get to do this again. Today we’ll pick lettuce for a salad and use up the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2013
This last week the full moon setting was really pretty, and seemed very large in the sky. I was awake very early to take this picture. We’ve been spending a lot of time playing with the garden, harvesting things and preserving what we don’t want to eat fresh. Especially berries. Lots of berries have gone […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2013
Today I fixed a batch of vegan Italian Sausage and my favorite part of that whole process has got to be preparing the spice mixture. I almost hate to shake up the spice bottle and mix it all together. It’s so pretty and looks like layers of rock. Today was a cooking day. Yesterday we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2013
For lunch today we harvested our first batch of peas as well as taking some of the larger leaves off the Swiss Chard plants. I kept eating fresh ones as we were shelling them. The first planting of peas is done blooming and we picked roughly half of the pods on the plants. The others […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2013
There were enough ripe strawberries today to have enough for a batch of jam. I really didn’t think we’d get enough to do that, but wonders never cease. I like to make jam the old-fashioned way, without pectin, just slowly cooked and reduced to the proper thickness. Since I don’t use pectin I can use […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2013
They arrived over the weekend and then we needed to call in reinforcements. They already took care of the first cord. This winter the plan is we’ll have to do minimal splitting, just cart it in the wheelbarrow up to the house. Will be a luxury and less wear and tear on us.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2013
We should be able to pick a similar number of berries every other day for the rest of the summer. They are small but very sweet. Next year we might replace the plants with June bearers so we get a whole bunch at once. Haven’t decided. These are so good.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2013
Things are really growing in the garden, especially in the greenhouse. The tomato plants have quadrupled in size and all five plants are blooming and/or setting fruit. It has the same effect on my glasses when I first walk in. The tomato plants were small when we planted them and now all are above the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2013
Last night we had a really beautiful sunset. Thunderstorms were predicted but failed to materialize. The clouds did yield a dramatic sky as the sun went down. Today we still have a chance at thunderstorms and rain, but less of a chance than yesterday. This morning we went down to the garden to open […]