Snow pictures

Here are the promised snow pictures of the greenhouse.  I could, for fun, maybe shovel snow around the whole thing and make an igloo.  Or not. 

This is a picture showing the whole garden.  The little oval of snow is the dish, almost invisible behind the snow bank.  The garden is probably under six feet of snow.  We have had to shovel the snowbank to the side because it was getting too high. 

This is the greenhouse garden view during summer solstice, for interesting contrast.  

Oooh it's blogging season again!

I have dusted off the seed container.  The new seed order is in, sitting on the living room table.  Our hours of daylight are getting longer.  It could be cabin fever.  Maybe it's last year's Alaskan carrot I ate for lunch going bad on me, because I smelled a hint of SPRING in the air.  Or maybe I'm jumping the gun a little bit.

What have I been doing on my blogging break?  Shoveling snow.  I have defined back muscles for the first time.  EVER.  And that's only doing part of the shoveling.

I've also been busy with the kids, surfing the web a lot.  Going stir crazy.  You know, regular Alaskan winter stuff.

I have a sneaking suspicion we are going to have a nasty spring breakup.  On Sunday we dug out from maybe our fifth foot of snow?  Who knows.  It's really deep out there.  Our greenhouse is basically buried.  The snow has completely covered my ghetto smokehouse.  Only a few inches of our fencing is visible above the snow.  We have single handedly shoveled a large sledding hill for the boy to use, well over 10 feet tall.  Our driveway resembles a canyon.  I can almost climb to the garage roof from the snowbank on the side of our driveway.  All that water is going to have no place to go when it starts to warm!

I will post a picture of the greenhouse.  In the meanwhile, I'm going to try to shovel my way in to the greenhouse door to get some screened compost leftover from last year.  Wish me luck.

Christmas season post

Oh it's been busy. Since gardening is in the distant future (maybe March?) I've been concentrating on working inside the house, raisin the kids, doing crafts.  Even picked up playing the oboe after a 16 year break.  More on that later.

I've made lots of little wire Christmas trees.  Here is a new one crocheted out of brass wire.  This was a prototype.  Crocheting brass wire is surprisingly easy.

An ultra mini one made with crystals and green beads on brass wire.

This tree was my favorite!  About five inches tall, it has a hand beaded star on top and a garland of green beads.

Here are the other trees. 

Have a Merry Christmas.  I really wish Christmas would last longer.  I could easily replace Valentines Day with Christmas.  Have a happy new year too. 

Faith