When I moved to Northeast Washington in 1974, temperatures got to be much colder during the winters than now, as much as -40° in Ferry County. The past 20 years have been very mild by comparison (http://www.deanfarr.com/state_weather/). So it may be with exaggerated fondness that I remember working in the Golden Valley Mine one winter. … (read more)
The old saying is “Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.” Well the talking has been going on big time now that global warming is blowing away all high temperature records every day. I even saw an article about new highs for low night time temperatures – ok whatever. Ironically… (read more)
As I sat down to write this blog and noticed that I was nearly 2 months behind, that it was almost Memorial Day and that most of what I had to report was pretty boring. Then I got a text from Cheryl, that a black bear had just come up to the bedroom door, a… (read more)
When I moved to this property 35 years ago, I put a well ring on top of the ground near the garden. I thought that I could use it to make manure tea and then siphon the enriched water to the plants in the garden to both water them and add fertilizer. That never got… (read more)
Here it is, the first day of Spring and I’m trying to write a personal blog that I now realize I have not written all winter. To be fair I did write about cats on January 14th and now Spicy is vigorously massaging my arm while I am trying to type. So some things have… (read more)
Lots of things happened in the world in December and January. But around here it was mostly about the cats. We already had a wonderful little gray cat, Gray-C. She was inside when on December 8th we all heard a cat meowing at the front door. Cheryl went out to check it out and the… (read more)
(Written in December) Every month I review my journal entries to compose a post on this website. You might notice that there are a lot of entries for November. That’s because the website crashed during a power outage on Friday the 13th in November. I had just changed the bottled wine page to replace out… (read more)
This is a busy time in the vineyard. So to avoid writing a long post I have assembled an album. Hope you like it.
It’s the time of radical changes back and forth. High temperatures without rain have persisted since June but now low temperatures and rain have returned as well. The Fall equinox sounds like one of the most even times of the year for the length of the day and night. But that balance is only a… (read more)
Laws of Nature This year I have a large compost pile. My wonderful science-teacher daughter gave me a 20 inch long compost pile thermometer to keep track of what is going on in there. There is lots of advice for making compost on the package. A little like a recipe they list what activities happen… (read more)
