Posted on 03/02/2018 7:53:09 PM PST by greeneyes
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None of our raspberries ever survived, the black berries did, so we just do the blackberries now. We have a really nice patch of wild blackberries, but 2012 drought really hurt them.
They haven’t come back yet. They had huge juicy berries before that year. So we keep trying.
Look at my home page by clicking on my user name. This is where I live and it is great most of the time. The first photo is from my deck looking west at the continental divide. I live about six miles east of the divide and I can see the divide from my living room from about central Colorado to southern Wyoming.
I checked my winter wheat and garlic - it’s beginning to pick up steam, the green makes it look like Spring - otherwise we would have to wait a while too.
Stored away from heat - should last quite a while, but I’ve never read anything about that. At the end of the year sale, I bought a case of rings and lids at 75% discount - I’m hoping to never have to buy any more.
Glad you are getting rain. Are you allowed to collect rain?
We usually get enough Spring rain to get us through the summer drought.
Well, it’s hard to beat the scenery - We traveled through Colorado and Wyoming a couple of times when I was a child.
In Cody Wyoming, we ran into a hail storm in June - huge golf balls size. Had to pull over, unhook trailer in road side park. Take the car back to town and get some chains and a new tire.
We swept the hail off the picnic table, and huddled in the trailer with the oven turned on for a little heat.
That’s a great sale price! I bought a bunch also, but now I’m hoping I didn’t buy too much. I’m hoping they will last as long as I need them to.
That was several years ago. I haven’t used many, because I have to keep buying new jars. Every year I run out of old ones to use. Pantry is growing. LOL
Thanks for the videos. It appears I need to get out there and do some pruning!
And being a mountain climber living at 8,500 ft elevation in Colorado helping with acclimation and training is just outside my door. I have been climbing in the USA Smokies and Rockies, Alps in France and Switzerland, Volcanoes in Mexico and Ecuador, Highest peak in Andes in Argentina, more volcanoes in Japan and Indonesia and Himalaya 8,000 meter peak in Tibet.
there’s usually signs on those ovens about that sort of thing :-)
Don’t you hate that feeling? I hate it when I am scrounging, looking for jars to can stuff in. And trying to use stuff up in the old jars just to have the jar to use!
Neat. Nothing in the Sierra’s, like Whitney?
Yes, I have climbed Whitney, Hood and Ranier.
Thank you so much.
How does it do with grass.?
I was also an instructor for several years for the Colorado Mountain Club Basic Mountaineering Course. It was a long course, about six months, but very rewarding.
I have a fear of heights. I don’t go more than 2 steps on a ladder ever - higher makes me dizzy. More power to you.LOL
It was the 60s. No signs. It beat Frost bite. LOL
I have a corner where I try to keep a case of pints, qts, and half pints. Just in case.
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