Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009
I’ve been making this sock pattern for worsted wool winter socks since 1978, but only periodically. And, every time I do make them, I wonder what in the world I was thinking when I wrote the pattern down, and I tell myself to fix it so I don’t have to figure out what my younger […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2009
Today the Pygmy Nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers, and jays of various descriptions were all complaining about an intruder in their midst. Dan figured the owl had made a return visit but we weren’t able to find him readily. However, when Dan went outside to brush the snow off the solar panels so we could get some […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2009
For the first time since mid to late November, it is above freezing. The snow is softening and getting heavier, and falling off the trees with a soft whomping sound. This made for some interesting times plowing the driveway, but I don’t think any landed directly on Dan’s head. We have had so much snow […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2009
We are up and running again on satellite broadband. Except for a stupidity on email, all is working wonderful and it means 2009 is off to a rousing start finally. The path from the front deck to the garage is getting filled up with snow again this morning. Yesterday I shoveled a good fat fluffy […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2008
Yesterday was highly stressful, watching the satellite internet installation person work for five hours to get our new service up and running, and fail completely. He’ll be back Saturday… hopefully.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2008
What better thing to do when there is two feet of snow on the ground and more threatening to fall than to look at pictures of wildflowers and try to figure out what they are called. Last June I ran around in front of our house and took pictures of some of the wildflowers blooming […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2008
Rather than complaining about cold hands when I’m playing with my computer, I decided to take matters into my own hands, so to speak. Fingerless gloves are the cats meow, as Mishkin will testify. First step, I cast on enough stitches to comfortably surround my hand when joined in a circle, and then knit one […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2008
The skies cleared up today, and our solar panels actually produced enough power to hold the percentage charged on the batteries while we washed laundry. And the temperature outside didn’t drop like a rock. Both of these are pretty exciting, and that says a lot about our thrilling lifestyle here in the middle of nowhere. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2008
Shortbread cookies are popular at our household, on a lot of levels. Everybody loves to eat them, and they are the easiest of all cookies to make. I also plan on making some tree shaped cookies with green frosting and sprinkles, and the dough is made and cooling in the refrigerator. But I discovered I’m […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2008
We had two ripe bananas, and snowy weather today. The solar panels aren’t producing any power today, even if they do get brushed off; a heavy cloud cover coming from the north is colliding with moisture from the west. So, what does snowy weather have to do with bananas? It is cold and we have […]