What the hell May? Last night the low was around 2-3ºC. Today it was all manner of weather: freezing rain, sleet, snow, regular rain and sun, windy as all get out and damn cold, only about 5-6ºC. Needless to say I covered up my veg garden last night, and I’ve kept it covered all day…
Tag: winter
Rural life
So our move hasn’t gone quite according to plan. We did move one big load of our belongings to the new house on December 7, but the house wasn’t ready for us to live in it yet, so we piled our stuff in the rooms that were finished and turned right around and came back….
Force of nature
This morning I bring you a post from the cottage, where we’re cozied up by the fire enjoying the forces of nature around us. We arrived on Friday night after driving through steady, sticky snowfall, and Saturday turned out to be a sloshy warm day, perfect for building snowmen and forts out of the relatively…
A little colour for winter
I’ve had a stock pile of beets left in the fridge, from my garden, for quite some time, along with some cabbage that needed using. I realized it’s been some time since I made borscht, so, voila! The great thing about borscht is that you can vary the vegetable ingredients to use up whatever you…
What the boys were doing last week
So every year the boys go on a big ski trip. I don’t know how to downhill ski so I never get to go on these vacations. I should probably learn I guess! For this year’s trek, Chris and Cass decided to buy a pair of ski goggles with a camera built in. This was…
Some older Luna video
I’m trying to catch up on some videos that I have saved up. This one is from Valentine’s Day weekend in February, when we took Luna to the cottage for the first time. She was about 10 weeks old here. It’s not overly thrilling video, but she’s super cute, playing in the snow, all little…
Deep, dark winter
I know, I know, it’s only the first week of January; we’ve hardly even scratched the surface of winter yet, but it certainly feels like it’s been going on a while. We spent New Year’s Eve in Ottawa with our friends Bruce and Youngja, where it snowed constantly. It was lovely, and beautifully seasonal, but…
Signs, signs, everywhere are signs
I wanted to reassure all of you who have been lamenting the return of the cold temperatures after last week’s positively balmy weather. Look what I found in my garden this morning: But… then Dave Devall told us tonight that parts of Ontario are expecting as much as 25 cm of snow overnight. YAY. Winter,…
There’s no denying it, winter is here
This past weekend I entered another time zone: winter. With SNOW. Lots of it. It never ceases to amaze me when I drive to the farm in the winter. Toronto and Stratford area are like two different countries at this time of year. As of Friday evening there was nothing but bare ground in Toronto…