Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2009
Reading recipes is entertaining, in and of itself. I’ve been doing it for years, ever since we were in the bush in Alaska and we had only the food supplies we had brought with us to last for the year. In that particular situation, reading recipes was strictly for entertainment as I had no means […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2009
The days are already longer, a whole minute perhaps! It might a slight exaggeration to claim to be able to see the difference. Clear weather has returned and our solar panels will be able to produce sufficient energy to top up the batteries, a good thing since our generator is feeling puny. We bought it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2009
What do these two things have in common, you might wonder. Well, I put them in a new Italian bread recipe that I experimented with today. This is a different flour mixture, based on millet flour. It’s different too in that it uses no eggs, unlike a lot of the other gluten free bread recipes. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2009
Less than two weeks remain to the Winter Solstice, and the sunset is way to the south west of our front porch. Sunsets are almost as dramatic but hidden behind the trees and very short lived this time of year. Less than a minute later the color intensified and spread across the sky. Still very […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009
I went out on the porch to take some winter morning pictures of the mountains, and I was warm without a coat until I calculated the temperature – I wasn’t cold until I saw -22C which seems a LOT colder than merely -8F. Winter! We love this season. Today I’m going to make some more […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2009
Annoying as it may be sometimes, the weather forecasters got it right yesterday and they seem to have it right for the next few days. We woke up to +7F for our low temperature, and tomorrow it is predicted to be around -6F. That means our snow isn’t going to go away this time like […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
Starting in early winter, like the beginning of December, when the air is clear and cold and the moon is full, the moonsets are beautiful. I like it better when the whole world is white, but this will do in the meantime. We adjusted the angle on the solar panels to much steeper as the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009
At sunset today, the clouds were just cool.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2009
Snowshoe Hares are pretty much snow white this time of year, because the landscape is snow white, right? This particular bunny lives next to the woodshed and we see him frequently when we walk around the side of the garage. Normally this little bunny would be able to sit in plain sight, and completely blend […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2009
For my next project, I’m going to finish an old project. This assumes I can figure out where I was on the pattern when I stopped, which so far is eluding me. This style of knitting traditionally uses a handspun yarn, two ply, cashmere for one thread and pure silk thread for the second. There […]