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greenstormI let the fire go out last weekend, switching to electricity. The house had been getting up to 28 degrees or so in the livingroom, even though I was keeping the fire room down around 24-25; this is the time of year when the sun has swung around and comes in through the patio doors, before it's high enough on the horizon for the overhang to shade it. It's a nice time of year to get that solar heat and the heat is very effective. Unfortunately I looked at the weather forecast, saw it was supposed to barely go below zero for awhile, and decided electricity was the way to go. I didn't consider that warmer nights usually spring from cloud cover, so we've been having snow and rain and it's just grey and the house feels chilly, especially after being so warm. I should restart the fire but I need to clean the chimney first: the process of heating up the stove when it's stone cold like this is the most dangerous thing for lighting off creosote.
Failing that, I should climb into bed (bedrooms and bathrooms have their own heaters, which I keep set higher than the rest of the house) with something tasty. I'm out of milk, so the tastiest calorific thing I can think of is chocolate lava cake. It would help use up the deluge of eggs nicely, and it's lovely and rich. I have all the ingredients. It's easy and quick to make. If I eat it I'll likely sleep through the night, where if I don't I'll likely need to wake up and eat partway through. However I seem to be losing a battle with PDA about this one.
Instead of making chocolate lava cake or starting a fire I am trying to decide where to put my elderberry cuttings. They'll be planted straight into the ground and won't compete well with weeds for the first year so they need an area that's not sod. They would like lots of sun, and will get to a height that will block some sun but not too much of it. They can be cut back in fall, too. They should be fairly substantial within 3 years, at which point I can take more cuttings from them and reposition them if needed; it's not like an apple tree where this needs to be a completely permanent home.
Oh, and I have a dozen B118 apple trees arriving, and I have those now-three flats of apple seedlings that will be going into the ground, so between all this I need to be pretty thoughtful. These are permanent to semipermanent shade-creating light-desiring structures. Some possible placements:
Along the fence between the pigs and the road, south fence between the aspens, north fence of the lower garden, between the apple trees by the south winter pig fence, the north winter pig fence, probably just inside the wood field, the north wood field fence, between the wood field and back garden field.
Failing that, I should climb into bed (bedrooms and bathrooms have their own heaters, which I keep set higher than the rest of the house) with something tasty. I'm out of milk, so the tastiest calorific thing I can think of is chocolate lava cake. It would help use up the deluge of eggs nicely, and it's lovely and rich. I have all the ingredients. It's easy and quick to make. If I eat it I'll likely sleep through the night, where if I don't I'll likely need to wake up and eat partway through. However I seem to be losing a battle with PDA about this one.
Instead of making chocolate lava cake or starting a fire I am trying to decide where to put my elderberry cuttings. They'll be planted straight into the ground and won't compete well with weeds for the first year so they need an area that's not sod. They would like lots of sun, and will get to a height that will block some sun but not too much of it. They can be cut back in fall, too. They should be fairly substantial within 3 years, at which point I can take more cuttings from them and reposition them if needed; it's not like an apple tree where this needs to be a completely permanent home.
Oh, and I have a dozen B118 apple trees arriving, and I have those now-three flats of apple seedlings that will be going into the ground, so between all this I need to be pretty thoughtful. These are permanent to semipermanent shade-creating light-desiring structures. Some possible placements:
Along the fence between the pigs and the road, south fence between the aspens, north fence of the lower garden, between the apple trees by the south winter pig fence, the north winter pig fence, probably just inside the wood field, the north wood field fence, between the wood field and back garden field.
