Ramblings from White Mountain
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2013
A doe and fawn walked through the front yard today, first one we’ve seen this year. Not any bigger than Mishkin, so cute. Speaking of Mish, he was being tough in the doe and fawn’s general direction. Let the babysitting begin. Our yard will become a nursery again. The picture is so fuzzy because I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2013
In mid May we made a birding trip to our favorite place for birdwatching, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. It was a really great trip, as always, even though we did get skunked on Snowy Plovers (again!), and no Bitterns. That’s just wrong. We did see lots of great birds, had great weather, and almost no […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2013
Over the weekend we put up the greenhouse we’ve been planning since last summer. It wasn’t all that difficult to do. The hard part was getting the pieces here that we needed in order to build it. Each section of fencing is four feet wide and sixteen feet long. Set side by side and wired […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2013
Forecast is for a chance of snow overnight once again. At least it goes away during the day. April 15th Mish was five years old. He celebrated as only a cat can. Yesterday we picked up our new car. We traded in our two other Subaru vehicles for various reasons, and purchased a new Subaru. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2013
Fortunately it melts during the day (mostly all melted from yesterday), but we woke up to a white world again, and it’s still coming down. I think I’ll do some baking today. Another good day to hibernate.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2013
Waiting for snow to melt is about as exciting as waiting for aspen leaves to turn gold. When it happens, THAT’S exciting. But getting there is tedious. This explains the lack of posts recently. Doing nothing new isn’t very interesting to read about. So… gradually the snows melted, and everything looks brown, grass, hillsides, trees, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2013
Waves of clouds sweeping across from the west have been delivering snows. This time of year it’s always so hard to remember what green looks like. Yesterday we had clear skies and bright sunshine, sharply defined shadows from the trees and buildings. It was just a gorgeous day outside. Even on a glorious late-mid winter […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2013
Today I made Banana Beignet, which really turned out more like donut holes. Theoretically these were supposed to be dusted with powdered sugar, but I had visions of a cloud of powdered sugar coating every surface in the kitchen, besides me and I always get attacked by flour monsters, so I opted to simply roll […]