Rainy Day Blues

Yuck! It’s been raining on and off — mostly on — for awhile now. We knew this was coming so we worked hard when the weather permitted to prepare to be in the tipi for several days. Bob’s been busy cutting up firewood while I reworked the floor coverings in the tipi to make it a little more waterproof.

We’ve been spending a lot of our time looking at gardening books. Our goal is to get a cold frame built soon for the kale and swiss chard plants that we recently purchased. One of our favorite books, Four-Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman, has some great information about using cold frames to extend your harvest into the winter and also using them to get a jump start on your garden in early spring.

The rain let up some this afternoon so we came into town to the library to check our email (and the blog too!) and do a bit of research on the Internet for low wattage lighting that will work with our solar panel.

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