Weekending

Baby Robins in the grape arbor.

new baby

old baby

Zucchini - Zucchetta Trombolina 

The weekend seemed to fly by. Lots happening in the gardens, new arrivals, and friends dropping by.  Mrs Brown has been setting again. (I remembered to write down when she started this time.) On Saturday her first egg hatched. She has abandoned  one of her other eggs but she's still on the nest with a blue egg. This will be the last batch of eggs sired by  Mr Fancy-pants. He had been getting more aggressive with us this last year and after one more round of rooster golf, he took a short walk to the woodshed. The chicken yard is much quieter these days.

In the garden, harvest time is upon us.The zucchini is going nuts and we dug the potato bed with some help from Bucky. The potato plants hadn't died off all the way but a mouse had taken taken up residence. So it was either dig them now or loose the crop.The mouse seemed to have a preference for the Yellow Fins , he mostly left the reds alone.  As it was the harvest weighed in at 25 pounds!!  I can't fault the mouse for his excellent taste, the yellow fins are marvelous.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

A stranger in the night

Sometime during the night a bear came by and helped himself to my apple tree. He pulled off 2 fence boards and cleaned out all the low hanging fruit. The bear was so neat about it I only realized he'd been there by the giant pile of poo. Bucky peed on it while doing his rounds this morning. The dog is very offended that something else pooed in his yard. (I have a pic of the giant pile but decided against posting it)

this is the only damage to the tree.

Look how nicely the bear piled up the fence boards.

This variety of apple benefits from a good frost before being eaten.  I was planning on getting to it this weekend. I guess I'll just take care of that today.

Weekend Report

Look who came to visit this weekend! We don't often see elk in our fields even thought two fairly large herds live in the valley. I always forget how big they are until I see one up close. (The grass around the feeder is knee high on me.) This girl stayed at the salt lick for about half an hour then went back up the hill into the wilds.

In the war on mucus, a little headway has been made. Mom is feeling better, not great but she's functional. I am still plugged. My ##//**!! eustachian tubes are still blocked. Things seemed to have calmed down to a slight headache rather then my head exploding, but I still feel like I'm a few fathoms under water. I have gained a greater understanding for the annoyance of having hearing loss.

It was also an interesting weather weekend. We had a series of thunder storms roll through. And I mean roll through. It would be sunny and blue sky, then a dark cloud would come over the mountain. You could watch the sheets of rain coming across the fields. One such storm brought thunder and lightening and fried the fax machine. The poor thing started ringing and kept printed sheets saying there had been a memory error. (I feel like doing that some days.)

In food news, I tested out my new Ebelskiver pan. There is definitely a learning curve to turning the little puffs of goodness. I used this recipe from Culinate.com. I was out of sour cream so I used yogurt instead. Still completely yummy! (also good made in a waffle iron)