Finished up our time at the antique fair… Visited a meadery… Drove to the coast! Spent the day on the water with my sister, nephews, and their girlfriends… and caught that red fish my brother insisted I bring home to him. Sorry, brother, it turned into ceviche for tomorrow!
Author: Carol
Roadtrip: Antiques and More
Do you like vintage items? Antiques? Crafts? Furniture? Glassware, clothing, rugs, corbels, mantels, lights, paintings, skulls, turtle traps? Well, have I got the place for you! If you’ve never heard of Round Top, Texas, you’ve been missing out. Round Top, Warrenton, Burton (!) and surrounding areas have become a mecca for vendors that carry all…
Roadtrip: Magnolia Farms
It started with a cupcake… Continued with a garden… Continued to the market… And it kept going and going!
Counting Down
It’s late and the big day is tomorrow… bright and early! I’m not quite packed… and I’m practically nauseous from getting ready to leave for two weeks. First of all, I’m not good at abandoning ship when there’s work to be done… here at home and the library… Second… it’s a long long long long…
Wanderers
For a couple of weeks now, it’s not unusual to hear elk bugling in our fields at night… We don’t see them, but we sure love listening to them. Today, with all the rain… a couple of cows and a calf just wandered by…
Rain Ridge
Holy buckets. More rain. More work. A puzzle to make up for Wednesday! Rain Ridge Puzzle
Guesses
#tbt is on hold… And I have exciting news to share… Monday I’m going on vacation! Yes, like a REAL vacation! I’ve been to librarians’ conventions… and there were those trips to get my custom cowboy hat… but I haven’t been gone for longer than a couple of nights for many, many years. Where am…
Ta-da!
Re-watched videos… Took notes… Ta-da! (note the chickens and the whitetail bucks and raindrops! double-click to see it full sized) Rainclouds from Carol Greet on Vimeo.
Rainstorm
Two months of drought… and now rainstorm after rainstorm! 1.92″ and all of that in the past few days. I set out my GoPro… the skies were dramatic and a storm was blowing in. Perfect for a time lapse. But once again, my memory fails me and I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out…
Salsa
28 pints of salsa later (plus 3 pints of tomato sauce)… I’m done. Except for all those tomatoes on the vine under the big blue tarp… ugh. I’m almost to the point of letting the frost take them… but I know I will just can some plain ol’ tomatoes when they’re ripe. But not today!…
Enter Freeze Warnings
Blessed by rain… And now enter the cold front and freeze warnings! There is snow on the mountain. My tomatoes are covered, the ripe ones harvested… My windows are steamed from the heat of my salsa making endeavours. My Black Prince tomatoes are delicious, but their black color looks “off” when made into salsa… I…
Rain Days
Finally. Rain. Lots of it. An inch and a half as of this writing… which is great moisture for a dry steppe country like Wyoming. Rain days are vacation days for ranchers… go to town on a rainy day, and you’ll see your neighbors. We were going to be prepping for preg testing on Saturday……