Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2011
We’d seen evidence bears were up and around, but hadn’t seen one in our yard until yesterday. We see bears around here, starting in May and this year is no exception. We were watching from the window next to Oro’s cage. Oro had been watching the bear warily but quietly, until we showed up to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2011
Spring Comes To Those Who Wait. And wait. Our big project for this year is building a garden and a greenhouse. The gravel pad for the greenhouse was the first step, since the heavy equipment operator would be here anyway removing some of the old garden posts and pulling out trees and bushes. Our friend […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2011
Mishkin is three years old now. So I made him a hat.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2011
We were standing in front of our bush cabin in Alaska, and it was spring. And thirty years later, we are standing in front of our house, and it is spring. Some things change, and some things remain the same.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2011
It’s too early to think about gardening!!! And don’t take that snowplow off the Ranger…. Then, a couple of hours later, with a fresh inch of snow on the ground, Dan headed outside to split some firewood, and we watched the temperature drop 9 degrees. Another couple of hours have passed, and it is still […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2011
We are starting our major project for this year, a garden. A garden and a greenhouse, to be precise, but we’re not working on the greenhouse part yet because we don’t know how we want to build it, just where. First thing we did was to tromp around in the snow a week ago and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2011
Two of our favorite things to do are sightseeing and birdwatching (and me being a passenger and letting Dan do all the work driving!), and combining them makes it even more fun. Today we went for a drive, just to get out of the house and go see some new scenery now that the snow […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2011
Finally finished a scarf I started a while ago, before it was snowing actually. Figures it’s done and the snow is melting. The finished blocked scarf is 9.5 inches wide, and about 38 inches long, without any fringe, and weighs 2.5 ounces at this time. I’m thinking beads! But I’m not sure. The drape is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2011
It’s snowing again. It’s not that cold outside, barely above freezing, and the house is too warm to have a fire in the wood stove in the living room, so the cook stove in the kitchen is doing double duty – fixing food and keeping the house warm. I’m sitting in the kitchen with my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2011
It’s hard to get serious about planning a garden when the area in which you plan to construct said garden remains covered with snow. We know spring is here because the calendars says so, but our temperatures are 10 degrees below normal for this time of year. The snow would stick to the ground briefly, […]