We still have lots of trees here in the PNW... so we've been cutting alot of them down to make room for a larger garden.
We've also planted alot of fruit trees, too.
Too many pines and firs!
With the old backhoe fired up, we pulled a few stumps and an old pole, to make room for fruit.
We had a GREAT snowstorm, with lots of sledding, and big snow-ball fights!
Mom and the kids have been baking lots of donuts in the new cookbook she got for Christmas.
These blackberry fritters turned out AWESOME! Good thing they made 36 of them!
Some travel already this year, out to sunny Texas this time.Beautiful weather, but their drought is bad.
We still have plenty of wet in the PNW...
While in Texas, I made it out to Galviston to see some water. No fishing this trip, but we scouted it out.
With all the donuts, we also made the biggest snow-cone in the PNW.
That didn't last long, either!
Taste the rainbow!
The last few days of nice weather were great to plow the garden up, working in all the leaves from last fall.
We also broke ground on the new garden area cleared of trees.
For projects, we are still using the rawhide, and working out the leather.
We mixed up a batch of Vinegarrete dye by washing off steel wool with acetone, then mixing the wool with Apple cider vinegar. In a few weeks it will be a good, black dye.
The leather has turned out beautiful - a very nice white.
It is dried well, and now we are stretching and breaking it in to be extra soft and supple.
The black dye will look great with blue-glass beads and the white leather...
We won't be posting as frequently these next few weeks, but rest assured there are lots of new projects going on.
We won't be posting as frequently these next few weeks, but rest assured there are lots of new projects going on.
