more to come from Zen Mountain

Turkey Day has come and gone , for Ma; my better half and I, we had our dinner just yesterday on Saturday, as...Ma works ALL holidays , no matter what day of the week it is....Awesome.. I mentioned that we have to do organic turkeys as is most everything we can get. The dinner, of...

So..Did you see the Lunar Eclipse?..Um..No

Such is life.. A once in a lifetime Lunar eclipse? But, of course, the clouds would lay in , rain would fall and low clouds cover Zen Summit like fog.....Duh.. The day of....Then clear for the next evening.. before all was socked in once again. The astrological events have a very good chance of coming...

Birds of a feather

The week went by incredibly quickly...for me..Not Ma; my better half, but for me, yes.. I hadn't planned on going into town at all this week..my non-citiot week..but instead, I ended up in Gotham three times...That is a lot for me these days... That alone makes the week fly... I had things I had wanted...

Zen’s Short Stories: Awwwh-meww

The funny thing about the Short Stories is; they are all based on actual events. Early this morning, we had our elk herd come in to sit under our bedroom window at 0-dark:30..With a wake up call. The other funny thing is, more often than not, I don't have a clue what I'll be writing...

Zen’s Short stories : Trick or Treat

Now, as everyone knows, Ma; my better half, and I are waaaay off the beaten path...Ok.. It's not so much a path as a series of deer tracks that veer off a dirt road.. off a dirt road that is off an old mountain road....between villages... In the arm pit of the Columbia Gorge... So.....

Rainy Season settling in on Zen

After way too many months of dry, we are finally getting the rain we desperately need. It has been getting wetter and wetter over the last several days, and today we are enjoying a nice soft rainy day. Temps have dropped but not seriously yet, whew. Though we are getting into the upper 30s at...

Canning Fall harvests

With temperatures lowering, most folk have already put their gardens to bed.. We are still pulling every last fruit of the year from pepper and tomato plants. We had the single freezing temps hit on Monday morn. When we got up at 5am, we were still at 34F, close but above.. as the morning bloom,...

A chilling breeze

Though we are still having wildfires around the area, the chill Fall breezes have come in threatening to freeze plants still waiting for rains. Zen's mostly norm of twenty mile an hour winds scatter leaves that have changed colors, not because of the season but due to lack of water. The few plants around us...

Autumn settling in

Autumn is settling in, with colors vibrant throughout the woods... Unless you're on Zen.. We tend to go from Green to Brown.. Jolly.. We do have a major change in our skies however. Sitting on a summit , you tend to see far more sky than any ground coverings anyway if you are sitting in...

Heading to Harvest chores

Nothing new for many of us, Some can, some freeze, and some just have folks come collect whatever is growin. Last year with the whole " No lids for Ju " we did some apple fun stuff, some zuc and little more. This year with the super early warm spell at the last of winter...