The past few days have been HOT in Tehachapi. Normally I wouldn’t mind heat, since I grew up in a place where 100+ degrees in the summer was relatively normal. However, I never fully appreciated the value of air conditioning on such days; that’s right, here in our little homestead we have no A/C. Thank [...]
Posts Tagged ‘weather’
29 Mar
Finished!
We finally got the garden boxes finished. We dug the 6′ x 6′ holes, stapled gopher wire to the bottom of the boxes, and filled them back in with a combination of amended soil: 50% of our own soil (which tends toward clay soil), 25% green manure, and 25% bumper crop compost. It was a [...]
16 Feb
Small Tastes and Good Fences
Our weekend was filled with various guests–friends and family, young and old alike. We were blessed to open our home to people from all corners of our lives. I felt a deep sense of gratitude for this place…it was as we had always hoped, even when it was simply a dream of ours: a place [...]
5 Feb
Progress and rainy days
It’s a rainy day here at the homestead. We’ve had a wonderful week–during the day I’ve been working on the house and the land, and in the evenings we’ve been spending a lot of time with new friends. For a surprise, I cleaned out the garage for Rob and laid out his tools so he [...]
13 Jan
No Longer Storybook Lore
When I was growing up, we’d learn about the seasons in school. I’d read books about the changes that come with each season, and I remember the pictures: Winter brought snow, spring brought flowers, summer brought green and heat, and in fall all of the leaves dropped from the trees. Sure, I’d always think. That [...]
8 Dec
Baptism By Snow
Our internet was finally hooked up yesterday before the big snowstorm hit, which means I will be able to post more regularly as we settle into our new homestead. I had thought that it had really snowed the morning of the move in…boy was I wrong! I had nothing to compare it to–until yesterday. Man, [...]
3 Dec
We Made It!
Move in day was last Friday. Well, technically, I suppose it turned out only to be move out day. At 7am, we picked up the truck, only to realize it was too small. I don’t know who from the UHaul website decided that a 3 bedroom house could fit into a 17′ truck, but it definitely wasn’t [...]
24 Sep
Autumn
One of my favorite parts of our Utah trip was being able to be present to the onset of autumn. The southern part of the state had just begun to see its early nights of frost, especially in the higher elevations (this was taken at around 9,000 feet). It seemed a sacred thing to be present [...]
31 Aug
The Wrath of Creation
Rob and I spent a weekend in retreat, but we couldn’t escape the major news of the area: a fire that, at this point, has consumed over 85,000 acres. Here’s the Saturday evening view from my parents’ house, about thirty miles from the closest point (to them) of the fire: Apparently this fire is so [...]
26 Jul
“I hear the rolling thunder…”
“…Thy power throughout the universe displayed…” I love weather. I just can’t help it. It brings out the little child from within me and I squeal like I was 5 years old. We have been blessed this week with some pretty awesome thunderstorms. Thunderstorms, to me, are among my favorite of the extreme weather occurrences. [...]
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