Weather
May Day Report
May Day and Mid-Spring Report. (This next week is smack dab middle of spring and full of some of the bestest silly holidays!) Spring so far… what a wild ride! We’ll start with the Market Garden… Market Garden Report Part One Here in the Puget Sound region we had one of the strangest winters. … Continue reading
What Does the Farmer Say?
I’m sure those of you connected to the internet, oops, guess that’s all of you, have seen “What Does the Fox Say?”. I found it hilarious, at a time when I needed a good chortle, tear streaming chortle. My good friend sent me “What Does the Farmer Say” it was cute but I had yet … Continue reading
Fall Fermenting With Pictures!
I purchased Sandor Katz’s The Art of Fermentation and I have fallen in love with fermenting everything. Well, I have stopped at fermenting the dogs. Pickles, relish, I’ve even started doing naturally fermented root beers…have I mentioned that I love fermented stuff? Oh, I see I have. I just looked back over my … Continue reading
Thunder Porch
I’ll need to take a few minutes out of my day today to tidy up our screen porch. Thunderstorms are predicted to come Friday night. And the screen porch is our favorite viewing spot. Okay, truth be told it is my favorite spot. Others in the family leave the safety of the porch for better … Continue reading
Freakish About Weather
When I first met Dirt, and for the first years of our marriage, I noticed that he was some what freakishly concerned with the weather. I mean freakish, with a capital “F” Freakish. I, on the other hand, barely noticed it. I loved it when it went my way, like snow on a day I … Continue reading
See You At State Fair!
I can hardly believe that it is State Fair time already! Wow what a summer we’ve had. I meant to make a post and call it, “Haying Season, It was the best of times and the worst of times”. But then haying season was long since gone and the post rather stale. Maybe when I … Continue reading
A Fairly Uncommon Atmospheric Occurrence
The following photos have not gone through the Photoshopmill, mostly to conserve time, but also to be able to say beyond a shadow of doubt, that we, Bet and I, saw what we saw. Cloud iridescence. Fascinating. Don’t you think Dear Reader? Like cloud rainbows. All about thin clouds, sun angle just right, … Continue reading
Happy Onion Day!
Here at 46.94°N it is Onion Day! Today is the day they will receive 15+ hours of sunlight here and begin to bulb. Happy bulbing to you! and yours! This is one of my “Keepsake” onions, they and “Keeper” wintered over quite nicely. So did my Ailsa Craigs, except for the odd occurrence of much … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part One, the Wonder and the Havoc
Three weeks ago, on January seventeenth, the whole of the Pacific Northwest received a large dumping of snow overnight, on top of a fairly typical earlier snowing, short lived and melty, on the fifteenth and sixteenth. Nearly as soon as we woke up on the eighteenth and were … Continue reading
