End of Season Flowers

-3 and a hard frost was predicted for last night so I cut whatever flowers were left in the garden to bring in for one last little bouquet. I really enjoyed growing some old-fashioned classics this year, one of them is in this collection, it’s called a Scabiosa. As pretty as it is I don’t think I’ll grow them again next year, because it took until the end of August for them to make flowers. And that was starting the seeds indoors in March. 

 You can see the autumnal colours of our mock orange out the kitchen window. Some Highwinds over the weekend stripped most of the fall foliage but this is a more protected spot.

Garden Repairs

One of our first garden beds was for raspberries - and now 15 years later it is on its last life of 9 lives! It really has lasted much longer than we had any hope for. 

In progress with sledge hammer deployment...


It isn’t pretty but it’s going to keep my raspberries thriving for another while.

Function over form! 

Labrador Puppies Week 3

 

Labrador Puppies- 2 weeks old

 

Harvest Time

 Our extremely wet depressing summer is over and fall is here.  Fortunately our September weather... though cold has had some sunshine.

Much of our garden products are finished or rotted out.  But where there are failures... there are always successes.   Our carrots... though a little small... are amazingly sweet and abundant. 

Sarah is also working on her annual struggle with our crabapples... will it gel and be crabapple jelly?  Or will we have crabapple syrup?

Whitehorse Walks

A lovely outlook over the down torn and Yukon River. 

There’s snow on the mountains. 

The Epic Lamb Rotisserie

We were lucky enough to get a small whole lamb this spring. It took a while to organize the event- really it was my friends Angela and Eric who did organizing of the event. 

Our bubble family working on the lamb. 

The parade to the pit. 

The pit. 

The basting sauce or liquor. The recipe is from Yashem Cooks Istanbul by Jason Goodwin. His Turkish detective character cooks a lot in his stories and the author has collected some of them for us readers to enjoy. 


After 5 hours of slow cooking turning and basting it was divine. 

The bones are becoming stock. 

Week 1 Labrador Puppies

 Photos from the end of week 1...