October 29, 2014 Magazines, Raised Beds, & Clouds

Monday dawning over the snow-covered Cascades.

Inside a cloud all day Tuesday.

Our two raised bed containers.

Monday 10/27. The sky was clear at dawn this morning, but a light overcast quickly formed.  It burned off by mid-day and the sun shone most of the afternoon.  Our high was 45.

Capper's magazine sent us a copy of their new magazine, Capper's Farmer.  It is published quarterly and looks very interesting.  Will probably subscribe.  But I am definitely not renewing my subscription to Mary Jane's Farm.  It has some interesting articles but is mainly for rich, yuppie woman who have moved to the country and fancy themselves as farmers.  Plus, I'm not real fond of women to put a photo of themselves on the cover of every issue of their magazine.  Am going to subscribe to Country Woman instead.

Betty and Belinda are growing their feathers back in and look so much better.  They really seem to be enjoying their roof over the run.  

After lunch we hit the floor running.  Took the mower off of the tractor.  JB shaved the door to the hen house so it closes easily when it is wet.  He used the tractor to move eight large, wooden cement forms over to the north side of the garden and we built containers for two raised beds.  He then made several trips to fill the bucket with dirt, and filled the smaller one.  Between bucket loads we added chicken manure, ashes and small wood chips from near the splitter.  May get some garlic planted this Fall. 

We are having problems with the temperature gauge on our weather station, either that or our temperature really has been a nonfluctuating 42 for the past few days.  There was ice on some puddles this morning, so . . .

Have started watching the Star Wars movies for the umpteenth time.  Have to do that at least once a year.  However, it always makes me feel old.  We saw the first movie, Episode IV, at a drive-in movie with our son playing in the back seat.  He was only about one year old, and will be 40 in February!

Tuesday 10/28.  It was 35 this morning and we spent the entire day in cloud.  We had received .09" of rain during the night and rain fell most of the morning.  More rain is due for quite a while now, coming in from Hurricane Anna.

The girls were very noisy today, and, sure enough, one of them gave us another egg!  Maybe it was a thank-you for their new roof.

I was feeling achy and out of it, so I slept a lot, and started reading a new Foxfire book we bought, #11.  JB read his book and baked bread.  A new recipe that smells and looks wonderful.

Wednesday 10/29. It is 44 and partly cloudy with valley fog this morning.  I have to go Down There for a few errands and am not looking forward to driving our road. . .

Thought for the day: As for the future your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it.  Antoine de Saint Exupery