The soft Summer days of Zen

Fall will be here shortly now as the days get shorter and even up here harvest is slowly but surely kicking in. The softer Summer This year we have been fortunate to have a less than metal melting temp average up here.. We ARE closer to the Sun y'all now right ? Our Groves all...

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The Gullywasher

Friday eve a nice thundershower came through Zen as well as a big chunk of our state and the two around us . The lightning storm was spectacular ...and I remembered just AFTER it came through to grab my camera we were so enjoying the rain...Crap... Lighting was striking all around us including here on...

Shake Rattle and Roll

The week on Zen has been a wee bit on the dark side this week. Ma; my better half , has been having stomach troubles which hit hard this last weekend , though better than it was still not great. Monday morning I woke up sick , went to work and it got a lot...

Make the bad bug go away

With something eating the pepper plants outdoors and biting Ma indoors has most all twitchy crawly flying things on the hit list this week . Bzzzz It isn't bad enough for Ma to be eaten up by something somewhere around the place., we have no idea where or what, but then a dang yellow jacket...

Hummie and Lil Eden Gardens

Another week with the nursery herds hanging around the Homestead kept us entertained along with the Hummie Clan. Nice weather had us out in Hummie and Eden gardens . Hangin' in Hummie Hummie Garden was the first garden we put in once the New house was up. It all started with the solitary feeder I had...

Zen’s Nursery Groups

The wildlife of Zen finally brought the first of the kids through this week. The Nursery herd The elk herds got closer to the house this week , as in , in the yard and it looks like one or the other of the groups is in each evening or early morning at least for...

Blown Away on Zen

The winds are daily, and nightly for that matter now since around the 21st of June. Winds are simply part of living up here , you can't expect to live on a summit without winds. We can hit Gotham and it'll be calm, the closer you get to the homestead , the stronger the breeze....

Currantly picking Cherries

Well both Black and "white" currants are ripening quicker than we can pick as well as having cherries ripen daily. We made up a small batch of cherry juice with a mix of Rainier and Montgomerys but the cherry size of the Montgomerys compared to the stone doesn't leave much juice. We got more than...

Zen’s own Parental Controls

Ma's and my vaca turned into forced down time unlike any of our other vacations in the past. Between my leg injury and the winds all week long , we both did less work and more recouping than we would have thought possible for us. The quick run down Monday , we went into town...