Frosty Morning Walk

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Wish Me Luck

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September

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Last Weekend

Shelley — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:57:31 +0100

It's snowing a bit outside today. The ground is too warm for it to stick but it's still kind of pretty and reminded me of these pictures from last weekend. Last Friday and Saturday we got a whole bunch of snow. In just a few hours on Friday night the world was transformed from drab greys and decaying greens to fluffy whiteness. Saturday morning had that wonderfully bright feeling tha...

Digging Potatoes

Shelley — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:59:36 +0100

I've been watching the weather for the last few weeks waiting for the first frosts. We've enjoyed a lovely warm Fall this year. Except for a chilly weekend in mid-September temperatures have been very mild and my root veggies have been happy resting in the ground. The forecast for last night looked ripe for a good frost though so I decided it was time to dig up my potatoes.

Nitobe Memorial Garden

Shelley — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:28:38 +0100

One of my favourite days on our trip was when we went to the Nitobe Memorial Garden at UBC. I'd seen pictures of the Nitobe Garden during a lecture when I was at university. I can't remember whose class it was or what the rest of the lecture was about but ever since then I've wanted to see this garden.

It is an incredibly serene space. It was a bright sunny day when we ...

Root Vegetables

Shelley — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:56:11 +0100

We've been doing the last bits of winterizing in the yard this week. We still need to put away the barbeque and I think there is a hose around somewhere but pretty much everything else is done. I've dug out all my carrots and potatoes and I'm amazed at how much food we got from our garden. I don't seem to have a picture of the bowl of carrots but there are a few at least ten inches long a...

How I Spent My Weekend

Shelley — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:35:27 +0100

Looking back at it I had a busy weekend.

It started off with a class at the gym at a quarter past nine in the morning. Most of the time I'd rather sleep late on Saturdays but I was awake in plenty of time to get to the class and it was really lovely to be out walking around on a cool and sunny fall morning. One great thing about going to the gym first thing is that it gives m...

Fall

Shelley — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:46:20 +0100

Where did the weekend go? I know I did stuff (I have photographic evidence) but it seems like there should have been a lot more time in those two days. I know where yesterday went at least. The projected low for last night was zero so I spent most of the evening taking in everything...

Putting By My Carrots

Shelley — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:39:18 +0100

I picked my carrots last weekend.

Do you remember me saying we'd got the first of our permanent snow a week and a half ago?

Here are my carrot greens.

At first I'd put off digging out the carrots because we didn't think this was permanent s...

Apple Sauce and Knitting

Shelley — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:21:32 +0100

Or, "How I Spent my Weekend"

I've been on the lookout for Canadian apples (particularly galas) in the grocery store for a while. I finally saw them when I was picking up things for Thanksgiving and, even though I knew I'd have no time to deal with them for at least a week, I grabbed up as many as I could. I had just enough time this Sunday before walking over to my mum's ...

Growing Short Rows

Shelley — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:43:37 +0100

It's the end of Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada. Holiday Mondays are so nice - especially when you're already finished with the big meal and all you need to do is put the remaining bones in a pot with some onion and celery and let it simmer away. Other parts of Canada may have had crisp, sunny fall weather for their day off; we got a chilly, damp, blustery day that made me glad to not have to leave the house. We ate leftovers all day and were generally lazy. Even Abby was content to just ...

Getting Ready for the Frost

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

I took in what was left of my garden today. We are expecting to drop down to zero on Tuesday night, but since Tuesday is supposed to be rainy I didn't want to be mucking about in the garden then.

I picked all of my tomatoes, my remaining beans and my cinnamon basil. I h...

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