Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2012
A Ruby-crowned Kinglet decided to challenge his reflection in our living room windows. At first the Kinglet would jump when Mishkin jumped at the window, but then he figured out he was not in any danger and then he said, “Oh yeah!! Tough guy. Bring it on.” Bounce bounce bounce. This went on for hours […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2012
We have some baby plants growing in peat pots, no ‘real’ leaves yet, just their seedling leaves are showing. Rainy weather and cool means they don’t get to go outside quite yet. We have some plants from the nursery this year (next year we hope to plant our own seeds for tomato and pepper varieties, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2012
A beautiful day to head south for a day trip, picnic, and see what new birds have migrated this way. I still remember the first time I ever saw these. We were driving past a field of corn stubble when the entire field rose into the air, hundreds of Yellow-headed Blackbirds swirling around, flashing yellow, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2012
The concrete paver walkway in the center of the garden is completed, except for cleaning off the pavers and brushing in the paver sand which fills the joints and locks everything in place. Maybe today while the contractor is here I’ll go do that. This is actually a good thing, to have this slope running […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2012
Today we spread most of the landscaping cloth and almost all the bags of bark mulch. Roughly three fourths of the garden has been mulched now. The kids were back today and they did so much work, it was simply amazing. Strawberry plants are set in the first bed in this picture, and in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2012
The excavator driver called this morning and said he would be here at 10 am or a bit later. So when he showed up at 9:30 am, we weren’t exactly ready. Didn’t take long to throw on jeans, heavy shirt, and hat. Dan hauled loads down to the garden site; the heavy equipment dumped it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2012
Friday morning, bright and early, we woke up to a Great Gray Owl sitting on our garden fence. Looking for mices. Good birdie!!!! The first thing Spring means is birdwatching. Yesterday we took a drive down to the southern edge of the county in which we live (we’re at the far northern border). Saw a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2012
The stormy weather we’ve had so far this month has given us some really pretty skies right as the sun dips below the horizon. The temperatures keep dropping down in the low to mid 20’s, and then into the 40’s during the day, to go with rain and snow, depending on the time of day. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2012
Obviously, Snowshoe Hares have a lot of influence over the weather gods.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2012
Some of us are happy about it. Some of us aren’t.