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greenstormDate with Tucker at his place last night. I let the woodstove go out so I could clean the chimney. When I got home today I just wandered around outside in the warm sunshine on snow that was shallow enough I could walk wherever I wanted without worrying about it overtopping my boots. I watched geese and piglets, checked the stems of shrubs like haskap, petted the dogs, unloaded some grain, and basically just had relaxing time.
The haskaps on the slope have good fat stems and buds, no shriveling at all. The geese haven't eaten the stems of the raspberries yet.
I even went into the tomato greenhouse, which smells and feels like all greenhouses I've ever been in at this time of year. The sun slants in, there's a smell of warm brown vegetation, it feels right. The carrots I didn't harvest have been nibbled by voles or whatever that is, and there are a couple big kale plants still hanging out through the warm/cold cycles we've had.
It's been such a warm winter, just a couple drops with maybe the lowest to -15C. We're due for some colder weather in about a week, we'll see what it does. It was such a cold summer and now it's been such a warm winter.
The stove isn't finished smouldering yet -- that's maybe a 29 hour burn with embers that would have been able to kindle a new fire, I love the Blaze King -- so I'll likely do the chimney tomorrow morning. Luckily it's been warm lately. The stove had been keeping the house up around 26C or so, and my mobility and muscle soreness was so lovely, but now the house is cooler and I can feel the sunlight coming in through the window on me now.
The haskaps on the slope have good fat stems and buds, no shriveling at all. The geese haven't eaten the stems of the raspberries yet.
I even went into the tomato greenhouse, which smells and feels like all greenhouses I've ever been in at this time of year. The sun slants in, there's a smell of warm brown vegetation, it feels right. The carrots I didn't harvest have been nibbled by voles or whatever that is, and there are a couple big kale plants still hanging out through the warm/cold cycles we've had.
It's been such a warm winter, just a couple drops with maybe the lowest to -15C. We're due for some colder weather in about a week, we'll see what it does. It was such a cold summer and now it's been such a warm winter.
The stove isn't finished smouldering yet -- that's maybe a 29 hour burn with embers that would have been able to kindle a new fire, I love the Blaze King -- so I'll likely do the chimney tomorrow morning. Luckily it's been warm lately. The stove had been keeping the house up around 26C or so, and my mobility and muscle soreness was so lovely, but now the house is cooler and I can feel the sunlight coming in through the window on me now.
