Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2011
On December 23rd we went about 70 miles west of here to a lake where we saw a new life species, a Ross’s Gull. It’s hard to express just how cool that is, and unless somebody is a birdwatcher, they won’t understand. This is the rarest of all North American birds, a small gull that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2011
We have about five inches of snow on the ground from the past couple of days of snowfall, and Dan plowed the driveway while the snow was still light and fluffy. Good thing he did that early in the day as it went over freezing by early afternoon. Just mild weather in the forecast for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2011
Weird weather to some degree. It warms up and the snow melts, a bit more falls, and then it warms up. We only have about 1/2 inch on the ground now, and nothing in the forecast for another week or so. Interesting. This morning it was cold, 9F. Now it is obvious how much of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2011
I know what that means, and in the summer if I was having to use a wood cookstove everyday I wouldn’t like it so much. We’d be eating a lot of salads!! But this time of year, it’s so nice! With two stoves going the house gets nice and comfortable in no time at all. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2011
Don’t you hate when that happens? I wouldn’t have complained a bit if they had missed the mark entirely and we woke up to 70F and sunshine. We are in the clouds this morning, or a combination of fog and snowflakes. In any event, we can’t see very far this morning. The pass will have […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2011
The last load of firewood was delivered on Sunday evening, and we stacked it. Theoretically we have nine cords for the winter, but we purchased six cords, so maybe it just isn’t stacked so well as we would like. Or this is new math. I can’t add to 13 so this shouldn’t be a surprise. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2011
Last night we were treated to a really spectacular sunset, just as the firewood guy brought up a load of firewood. Which reminds me, we need to stack that away today. Just one more full load of firewood and we’ll have the woodshed stocked up for the coming winter. It was funny, we drove to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2011
We are going to put snowtires on the winter vehicle, our Outback, this weekend. This means we’ll be parking the sedan for the duration, and being able to take it out for a drive again next spring will be something to look forward to all winter long. We bought a stationary bike this week, and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2011
Thus concludes this season of Aspen Watch. Wind yesterday and almost all trees lost their leaves, just a few remaining on the western edge of the grove where the winds didn’t catch them.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2011
Looking west… see? That’s snow falling!!! That’s not very far away, and it’s not here, but we can see it from here. So I turned around and looked to the east instead. In a month from now, it will be white outside our house. Perhaps by then I’ll be used to the idea!