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...

and the rain finally came in…

Last weekend, we got a nice light rain for the first time in months. This weekend, we have been getting a full weekend of some light rain and mists. I know there are a lot of areas that have been getting swamped this year, we are not one of them so these rains are absolutely...

Changing of Seasons and “Abby” Normal

Changing of the seasons and a deeper look into the story behind the 1970 Gibson SG Deluxe rebuild..

Zen’s Short Stories: Are you my mother?

I thought I'd toss up a new, based on real happenings, Short Story.. cause I can.... Zen Mountain Playground Zen Mountain Playground for the wild ones I often write about our wild kids' playground, where the Moms drop off their wee ones to come and hang out in relative safety while they get a well...

Zen Mountain Sunday Post 6 year anniversary

Well.. according to WordPress, it has been 6 years...course, the original Post started before that..Until the Hacking began and I moved here... Harvest So, I know that so many are overwhelmed at this point with veggies and some with fruit.. We are slowly gaining hot peppers and tomatoes.. veggie wise.. That's all she wrote... or...

The first Signs of Fall….probably

Because what would make this crazy season complete if not for yet another change literally over night. With temps in the triple digits and nights in the low 80s, something very unusual for up here, winds came in to clear out the smoke once again along with cooler weather. In less than forty eight hours...