Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2009
Last nights’ sunset was courtesy of all the fires burning immediately north west of us, rough 11 square miles, some of which are contained and some of which aren’t, but they are working on them. Scary stuff for the people who had to leave their homes!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2009
There are several unmistakable signs regarding summer. First, the hummingbirds arrive and set up housekeeping. We call summer time “hummingbird season.” The unmistakable sign that summer is here are the baby birds bombing around the house. Like these two, for example. These two managed to sit still long enough for me to attempt to focus […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2009
It’s well and truly stuck down too! I used another 5 gallon bucket of the adhesive. So, next weekend I will play with mud again. Oh joy, oh rapture, or something like that. Tomorrow it will be a miracle if I can move around at all. Sure makes the room look larger and neater, even […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2009
Finally getting around to putting grout on the tile floor in the basement. Good, clean fun. Tomorrow we’ll move the washer and dryer again, and lay the rest of the tiles. Next weekend I’ll repeat this messy grout process, and then we can start the rest of the finish work in the room. It’s getting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2009
First a sunset. Last night we had rock and roll thunderstorms. One bolt hit just uphill from the house, around a second between the flash and the kaboom. Mishkin leaped off the couch and ran to the sliding glass doors to look outside. We’ve never seen a cat that wasn’t afraid of thunder and lightning, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2009
It took the whole five gallon bucket of floor adhesive for the first half of the floor, due mainly to the extremely rough and uneven concrete surface the tile is being laid on, but the first four boxes of tile are now residing in their permanent home. This was a first for me. I’ve laid […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2009
I’ve decided to do a study of sunsets. They are such short lived things and frequently beautiful from this location. Sunsets here can last for an hour, or they can be quick flashes of changing colors lasting only a few minutes like the one last night. I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of watching […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It all started as a hard water problem. We had the local well driller company do a test on our well water to see exactly how hard it is. The scale is this: Water in the 0-10 range is considered soft water; ours is 65. This explains a lot. Water this hard can damage washing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
It’s summer time, officially! The rains are probably gone now for the next several months. Things are still so green everywhere around us. Soon it will be browned by the hot summer sun. The solar panels produce an amazing amount of power early in the day on the clear summer days. It makes the fact […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
This baby fawn is less than a week old, most likely. The pictures are a bit fuzzy because I took them through the glass window in the front door. Our macaw as making a racket about this time, alerting us to the deadly predator in the front yard. She has been on a roll today, […]