Ok, so I never, ever get tired of snow
May. 23rd, 2015 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThis morning I sat on my porch and enjoyed the view. Spring is far enough along to show the difference between the various trees that grow leaves. The rowan are furthest along, with enough leaves that they are already looking rather green. The birch are next, with a gentle yellowish green hint of colour showing. The third type, which has a greyer trunk than the birch, but I don't know what they are, hasn't really got any leaves to speak of yet.
But the day was rainy, so I devoted myself to indoor tasks. I have now started a pair of pattens, did lots of laundry, including the Pillows! I am so grateful to P&P (the local count and countess), who gifted us with a dryer their house came with that they never use--I haven't been able to wash pillows since before we moved, since one really needs a dryer if one wants to do so, a bit of tablet weaving, and even some reading.
Around mid-day I noticed that the rain had turned to snow! So, of course, I went for a short walk to celebrate. Yes, it is late May, and no, the snow had no chance of surviving in the warm weather (+5 C), and it melted as soon as it touched the ground, yet the sight of large white flakes falling from the sky always makes me happy.
Then, in the early evening the rain stopped and the sun came out, so I decided to try for another walk. This time, rather than going out and back I decided to try a short loop, and turned onto the mostly cleared area under the power lines. This worked just fine for the first part of the way--not much new growth yet, so the walking was easy enough. Then I reached an area where a wide ditch was busy draining the forest to the right. The ditch was much to wide to jump, and the water in it much too deep to consider crossing--when wearing rubber boots one doesn't usually wish to enter water that much deeper than the boots.
Therefore I decided to turn and walk along the ditch to see if there was a place I could cross upstream. Not only wasn't there an opportunity any time soon, the ground quickly got wetter and wetter, so instead I angled back towards the left, got onto a very wet road that crossed an even wetter field, and looped back home again. A fun adventure, but not the loop I had intended.
When I got back from that I decided I hadn't had enough time outside, so I harvested the nettles which are starting to come in behind the strawberry patch. I got just enough to fill the food dehydrator. We ran out of the stash of dried and frozen nettles early in the winter, so this summer I will try to dry and freeze much more of it, in hopes that I can harvest enough to last the winter. considering that I am likely to start using the dried and frozen nettles pretty much right away, they being more convenient when one wants to add just a handful to what one is cooking, this is a challenging goal.
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lord_kjar gets back from his trip to Göteberg, where he had a short course, and then stayed for the weekend to spend time with C, since he was in town. after he returns we can start working on the earth cellar again. I am really looking forward to that.
But the day was rainy, so I devoted myself to indoor tasks. I have now started a pair of pattens, did lots of laundry, including the Pillows! I am so grateful to P&P (the local count and countess), who gifted us with a dryer their house came with that they never use--I haven't been able to wash pillows since before we moved, since one really needs a dryer if one wants to do so, a bit of tablet weaving, and even some reading.
Around mid-day I noticed that the rain had turned to snow! So, of course, I went for a short walk to celebrate. Yes, it is late May, and no, the snow had no chance of surviving in the warm weather (+5 C), and it melted as soon as it touched the ground, yet the sight of large white flakes falling from the sky always makes me happy.
Then, in the early evening the rain stopped and the sun came out, so I decided to try for another walk. This time, rather than going out and back I decided to try a short loop, and turned onto the mostly cleared area under the power lines. This worked just fine for the first part of the way--not much new growth yet, so the walking was easy enough. Then I reached an area where a wide ditch was busy draining the forest to the right. The ditch was much to wide to jump, and the water in it much too deep to consider crossing--when wearing rubber boots one doesn't usually wish to enter water that much deeper than the boots.
Therefore I decided to turn and walk along the ditch to see if there was a place I could cross upstream. Not only wasn't there an opportunity any time soon, the ground quickly got wetter and wetter, so instead I angled back towards the left, got onto a very wet road that crossed an even wetter field, and looped back home again. A fun adventure, but not the loop I had intended.
When I got back from that I decided I hadn't had enough time outside, so I harvested the nettles which are starting to come in behind the strawberry patch. I got just enough to fill the food dehydrator. We ran out of the stash of dried and frozen nettles early in the winter, so this summer I will try to dry and freeze much more of it, in hopes that I can harvest enough to last the winter. considering that I am likely to start using the dried and frozen nettles pretty much right away, they being more convenient when one wants to add just a handful to what one is cooking, this is a challenging goal.
Tomorrow
lord_kjar gets back from his trip to Göteberg, where he had a short course, and then stayed for the weekend to spend time with C, since he was in town. after he returns we can start working on the earth cellar again. I am really looking forward to that.