Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2016
No snow here yet. Mount Baldy has some on top of it so the termination dust writing is on the wall. The only problem with growing a bunch of stuff, is having to take care of all of it. The first thing that needed to be done was to take care of the swiss chard […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2016
Saturday was an historic day. We got to meet a long time friend of mine for the first time, which sounds strange in a way. We met online at my most favorite website, and have been friends pretty much ever since. Nick visited Washington State over the weekend, from Sydney. Since it was too far […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2016
A few years ago I started making pancake sauces, instead of always having just plain old maple syrup. Yesterday I experimented with making a pancake sauce using Josta Berries, as this year we had an abundance of the fruit from our plants, and next year we’ll have even more as the plants start to hit […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2016
So many peaches, it was hard to decide exactly what to do with them. So first I opened one of my gluten free yellow cake mixes, and substituted the liquid ingredients for two whole peeled and diced peaches, then baked it until it was completely baked, about 20 minutes longer than the recipe said due […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2016
This morning I set my laptop computer up in the kitchen, by the wood cook stove; it’s nice and toasty warm in the kitchen. I love using the the various levels of technology – wood stoves circa 1800’s and internet circa mid 1990’s. While I’m working, I’m also watching a friend playing in a world […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2016
Second black bear we’ve seen in as many days. This one is the smaller of the two, a good 200 pounds, he’s very rolly-polly. The one we saw yesterday was a large bear, and we had an earthquake at the same time we saw the bear, so there was much excitement around the house at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2016
This is the fun time of year for gardening! All the colors of fruits and vegetables are just beautiful. The star of the harvest today is definitely the blackberries!!! We’ve tried to grow blackberries for six years and this is the first time we’ve gotten any fruit off of the vines. This is just the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2016
Today I made an apple pie which is always a chore using gluten free pie crusts. I mutter a lot of bad words under my breath and occasionally chuck the entire mix into the garbage, but today I was feeling less frustrated so I persevered. Fortunately it always tastes good, even if the crust is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2016
For my 60th birthday present to myself, I ordered some qiviut/silk (50/50) yarn, enough to make whatever size of lace shawl I want. I have transformed the first skein of yarn into a ball and put it in my yarn bowl. I’ll be using size 1 US needles for this project. The color is called […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2016
People are always impressed by massive construction projects undertaken by groups of people, and lasting years. I’m beginning to think this house could qualify for that sort of designation. We had a water softener installed on Monday. Yay! As with all improvements for the house, in order to accomplish that water softener project, we had […]