Nov. 7
The ice has come and gone on the Mill Pond. We took the canoe
down to get some driftwood to redo the front of our cabin, so I made a
little video... https://youtu.be/bWSo4fiXgoI
Here's the view in the now early evenings:
Nov. 22 When I look back through my blogs,
November tends to be a sparse month. We had snow in either Sept.
or October (should have made note of it here) but November has tended
towards colder but mostly dry (a rainy spell yielded about an inch of
rain a week ago)
But we're headed toward winter, and the sun was scheduled to shine
today, although it got a late start with the fog hanging in, so Butters
and I went for a walk up the ridge before it gets slippery...
Near the top of the first major bump on the ridge this old snag lays
down along a cliff that had leaned snug up against it when my
children were young 35 years ago, and I encouraged them to climb the
tree up the cliff to the promontory above. I think I may have
done it also, but it was of particular interest to see that they did it
successfully...
This is the view of Spirit Lake as the fog is rising with the little island that one family has a couple cabins on it...
It's also of note that I took photos and edited two other photographers for the Fall Folk Festival again. Here's the link http://www.spokanefolklore.org/FFF2019/2019.html
It put my camera over the 10,000 clicks mark, which is apparently is
like on autos the 100,000 mark, in that older cars weren't expected to
make it past there so the odometer would return to 000000. The
same happened with my camera, and I'm already up to 0480 photos since
then....
Nov. 30
This was a fairly average fall Saturday. I woke up around 5, went
to the pottery and caught up on the news on the Internet for an hour or
so. I went to work in the pottery, trimming the planters I'd
thrown the day before. Being Saturday, I don't do any throwing
that would require working on Sunday, so I mixed a 10 kilogram batch of
glaze. Then I started a batch of bread in the Hobart mixer and watched
football with my son while waiting for the dough to rise. I also
took Butters for a run down to the lake. I decided to use
some of the dough for raised doughnuts, so made a couple dozen
doughnuts. We watched more football and helped a few
pottery customers... I made 4 loaves of raisin bread and 3 of regular
bread. We went for another walk down along the old mill site,
then more football. As afternoon progressed I started on
turkey noodle soup for church. While it was cooking I baked 6
dozen cookies, some of which were for church also. We
had leftovers for supper, and watched more football... I was
tired by 9:30 for some reason...
books read
This
House of Sky by Ivan Doig. His autobiography of growing up in ranch
country of Montana is gripping reading... Most people wouldn't
have made it..
