It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanesAnd roofs of villages, on woodland crestsAnd their aerial neighborhoods of nestsDeserted, on the curtained window-panesOf rooms where children sleep, on country lanesAnd harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!All things are symbols: the external …
It's so sad to watch my beautiful pumpkin vines shrivel up and wither away, but it is fall now (well, almost) so, yeah. It was bound to happen, right? I just wish all of our pumpkins had ripened before now. We did manage to harvest quite a few though; some ripe and some not-so-ripe. I …
Am I the only one who noticed that there suddenly seems to be names for the full moon that I've never heard before? There's the Worm Moon and the Sturgeon Moon and the Super Bloody Pink Strawberry Wolf Moon (or something like that). There are so many names thrown out there. Why? Well, I learned there …
I can tell we are moving into autumn because I am wanting to sleep in later and later every day. With so many huskies in at night, we sleep with the window open (otherwise we'd suffocate!) and it's getting quite chilly over night now. Which makes snuggling under the blankets with an extra layer of …
Yesterday afternoon we set out to take the pups for a much needed run up in the foothills. It's been ages since we did some dry land mushing and it was pretty apparent right away that they had all but forgotten how to mush after spending the summer lounging by the pool, napping in the …
