March 10, 2006

Started 72 tomatoes and 48 peppers, 100+ asparagus, 200 onions,100-some leeks. Most of the herbs are now up, have over 100 of them. Need to put some into baskets maybe soon. Celery is up, first batch of asparagus is up. Eggs were not frozen this morning although it was -17C this morning when I got up. Hauled firewood to the porch with the dog team so it will last about 4 days.

Actually had a date with my bf which is very rare, and we took the snow machines up our mountain and went 32 miles on them at night.

We left just before dusk and made it to the top of the mountain just 5 minutes after sunset. You can see hundreds of miles of trees and the only other things you could see was our town with its little orange lights and another little place and when I asked him what the other little town to the south was, he said it was a mine and it was about 80-90 miles away as the crow flies. He used to log in the area we were at and he showed me where the female tree planter had been killed by a bear a few years ago and where he was when his grandmother died.. he calls that area "his church". We did not go up to 'his church' that time, but he promised he would take me next time when it was daylight. We went by a Cattle Company out in the middle of nowhere. I am not even sure what road to take to get to their place. Just a sign that proclaimed "XXXXX Cattle Company" and a few wee little buildings in the middle of a clearing. I am quite sure they are off grid. I am also pretty sure they have no solar, just a generator maybe. SO many animal tracks of so many kinds I saw last night, makes me wonder how many I walk past each and every day.

There are some pretty sweet trails I can run the dog teams on in the winter and ride horses on in the summer. After the bear killing that one person, I am not keen on going up there even with "Cyrus" our bear dog. That reminds me I need to ask if they killed that bear or not and if it was a black or grizzly bear.. it is hard to hear through my helmet when the sleds are running. I prefer my sled dogs, but the snowmobiles are fun too.


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