Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2012
Some plants just can’t take a joke. And Mother Nature has a sense of humor. A hard frost was predicted for the middle of last week, and frost it did, not super hard but below 30F was enough of a frost to make some plants wilt and the leaves turned black. So, a harvesting we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2012
Yesterday we picked all the cucumbers we could find on our four plants, and brought them up to the house to wash and then put into a large bowl with cold water, and then into the pantry. Today was pickle day, but first we had to go play in the garden. While Dan was watering […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2012
One of our broccoli plants made a nice head that needed to be picked, and so we did that today. So I guess I will be making zucchini bread today, as well as soup. The garden waits for nobody. Yesterday we went to the orchard and brought home some peaches, and a peach cobbler is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2012
Different kind of bug, not software-related. But we fixed two things that have been bugging us. Who knows? Next year we might even put a concrete sidewalk out to the generator to facilitate carrying gas cans and shoveling a path. The prior cover for the generator consisted of a piece of plywood, which we had […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2012
Our summer-time neighbor brought us two boxes of plums from his Idaho home. The smaller box of plums were a lighter color and I made plum preserves with those, and that batch was a huge success. Today I made plum jam with the dark purple plums. And this afternoon I’ll fix some cornbread so we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2012
We weeded and then picked most of lunch. Our first harvest of green beans and beets. We’ll use the lettuce in a tostata tonight for dinner, and the zucchini in a fritatta tomorrow. It’s going to be hard keeping up with the zucchini plant. I could see several baby zucchini growing when I picked these […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2012
A couple of days ago we walked down to the garden to pick dinner. The plan was to make a fritatta. Saute in a baking pan until tender, then add a few beaten eggs, place on top a few slices of fresh tomato, and some Almond milk mozzarella cheese slices, and bake until puffed. Add […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2012
Watching the garden grow, and harvesting weeds, err spinach. Two gallon freezer bags of spinach. Lots of spinach salads were in our immediate past. We still have a small amount left and tomorrow I’m going to pick some peas and make a stir fry. We’re really learning a lot about what works with the garden […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2012
It has been raining and raining, and cool. It looks and feels so much like spring. Today the high temperature was 55F (13C), and when it wasn’t raining hard, it was raining softly.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2012
They will start growing soon. Warm summer weather is coming, supposedly. Last week we had rain, rain, and more rain, and threatened freezing temperatures overnight to go with it. But the lowest we saw was 36F, barely above freezing but enough above that we didn’t have any plants die from freezing. Drowning, yes. But they […]