chattius 1,417 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 RAIN, enough to fill the well, the ponds, ... No longer risk of forest fires, the potato grew more in last two days than in the 4 weeks without rain before.... mushrooms everywhere... Luckily the people down in the valley didn't suffer from a flooding this time. 1 Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 lol mushrooms everywhere...thats a brilliant image ...theyre mostly water right? I think thats why theyre so hard to fry gogo Quote Link to post
Popular Post chattius 1,417 Posted June 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2020 1 hour ago, gogoblender said: lol mushrooms everywhere...thats a brilliant image ...theyre mostly water right? I think thats why theyre so hard to fry gogo Yes, easier to dry then to fry or freeze. Without crumbing most mushrooms have not much taste when frying. And for crumbing they need a certain shape and size. Shouldn't be too small. There is one mushroom I always cut in dices and prepare like a Schnitzel: the Riesebovist/giant puffball. Last year we had a still eatable one with 19 pounds. Most of the Steinpilze , porcini, I use to dry in our Treppengrundofen, a multi purpose staircase heat storing oven. The idea is to have an oven at ground level and force the warm air through heat storing stones building curves. So most of the heat is captured. At our house the airflow is between the steps of the close staircase . So we have warm staircases. I made small rooms closed with heat resistant doors into the staircase which can be used for drying: dried mushrooms or fruits, apple or pear chips, ... In our case we have a stone staircase which does a 270 degree turn around the chimney base. The ziczac of the air is between the steps. Saves room and the steps are warm seat ;) Got inspired by something like this below. Turned out that making my 270degree variant was easier than having it signed and allowed because the heat flow is more complicated, installing in our centuries old wooden patchwork would be totatlly different than designing it in a new house.. 2 Quote Link to post
chattius 1,417 Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” Albert Camus. Quite warm for autumn, 20+ Celcius. Fog and clouds in morning and evening some sun Our oldest wanted to do a last walk to the fruit trees she planted last year before she isn't able to do it any longer. Our second walked with her and had the camera ready. Autumn, nice coloured leaves at a very old tree. It has more nests than fruits: hornets, bats, little owls, nuthachs,... Each pole left and right from the 'road' is at a new planted tree. 1 Quote Link to post
Delta! 762 Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 We are approaching SUMMER! my heart melts with Happiness when I think about the warm, sunshiny pleasant days... my fiancé is dreading it.... we have even taken the Duvet off the bed. I just snuggle up to him a bit closer when I get cold now... 1 Quote Link to post
chattius 1,417 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 First night frosts. Was to be exspected because a sunny day means no clouds and no clouds in autumn means too much heat (infrared) is leaving the ground and isn't stopped by clouds. Luckily I found the pocket ovens. A coal stick is slowing burning in an isolated box which you can place in a pocket. School is currently at opened windows and the classroom of the twins is on the north side so the air outside is icecold. Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 18 hours ago, Delta! said: We are approaching SUMMER! my heart melts with Happiness when I think about the warm, sunshiny pleasant days... my fiancé is dreading it.... we have even taken the Duvet off the bed. I just snuggle up to him a bit closer when I get cold now... That's the spirit of summer... im always amused how there are friends I talk to here who live opposite weather... wonderful! gogo Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 3 hours ago, chattius said: First night frosts. Was to be exspected because a sunny day means no clouds and no clouds in autumn means too much heat (infrared) is leaving the ground and isn't stopped by clouds. Luckily I found the pocket ovens. A coal stick is slowing burning in an isolated box which you can place in a pocket. School is currently at opened windows and the classroom of the twins is on the north side so the air outside is icecold. I could use a coal stick or two on the way down to the depanneur (our word for a corner store) to get sundry... lol *sigh* ...guess its time to pull out the airconbox from my window gogo Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Its actually starting to get a might cold these days... and nights after when going out to get some groceries has got us going deep into the closets looking for the feather coats. Here's a nice pic of st josephs's oratory on my street. It was interesting weather... I guess some humidity in the air, mix of moisture and ice? The oratory seems to look different everytime I see it at night...but last night was one of my favorites...that molten light pouring out of its windows ... Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Minus 20 with wind chill here yesterday... yah its cold gogo Quote Link to post
chattius 1,417 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 We are above zero but with terrible cold fog for days. Put a second power generator to the kid's winter camp because the lights eat nearly all the power of the first because of the fog. Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 We're starting to break into the cold weather... layer up fam! gogo Quote Link to post
chattius 1,417 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 The watered field is frozen. But skating is not the same. There used to come near 100 kids each day... 1 Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 A lot of our out door rinks are pitted because of wild swings in weather gogo Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 we're cruising around minus one to zero last few days.. .lots of walks outside near the oratory...i can feel the fitup! gogo Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 We had an absolutely huge big soft powdery dump all-day yesterday... I did some OvertTime so was in for most of the morning but going out after into this weather is always a treat... the snow transforms the landscape and adds the best effects... plus its warm around the zero degree level... having lots of winter clothes is a must.. this is the street two streets over going up and over the hill.. land of the cloud people gogo Quote Link to post
gogoblender 2,361 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 -7 here in Montreal! Its that descent towards the chill we all hate after a loooooooooooong beautiful storm...i feel icyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gogo Quote Link to post
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