Fall, Blackberries, and Windows

 Fall colors are 

starting to appear

in bits and pieces around here.

The Chinese Pastiche trees

are just starting to share their

autumn colors.

We don't have an abundance of 

trees in our area that turn those

golden yellows, orange and beautiful

reds each year.  Our own trees

turn brown and then the leaves

hang out until late November

and even through Christmas. 

I'm not fond of that at all ~

having Christmas arrive when 

everything still looks brown.

I did find a bit of fall color

on the beach, of all places.

OK, so back to the cabin's kitchen.

It was super tiny...

I mean a one butt kitchen.

You could stand at the sink

and touch the stove and the refrigerator.

There was just enough room

to get things done.

If I stood in front of

 and up against the stove,

Rick could squeeze

 in to get to the sink. 

So perhaps it was 

a two butt kitchen.

 Add Liberty who was

trying to get to her food dish,

and things got a little tight.

Liberty didn't understand 

that she needed to be the first

one out...

Fun ~ Times

This was our view out the 

 one of the kitchen's window.  

It's not the greatest photo

but you can get a sense of 

the tall trees and the misty fog.

 

 I'll have to remember for next year,

that the blackberries are ripe in

mid September.  

I'd like to take some supplies, 

sugar and half dozen or so canning jars

to put up some blackberry preserves.

Cause look at these beautiful

plump blackberries.  

Trinidad has long been 

a vacation destination for my family.

Many years ago, we picked blackberries

and tried to get them home in time

to freeze them or put up some jam.

Well... they molded by the time 

we got home.  

This year, I picked only what 

we needed to make some 

blackberry jam/syrup for pancakes.

Because fresh black berries

preserves can even make Bisquick

pancakes taste gourmet.

We took the little hybrid car

over to the coast.  There was 

no room to pack grocery supplies,

so we purchased sugar and pancake mix

over there at the grocery store in town.

I still have some of the blackberry

preserves in the refrigerator here.

I should make pancakes this morning,

and this time from scratch.

Darn that photo is making me hungry.

It's 5:45AM while I'm typing this.

Rick and Liberty are asleep.

The coffee is finished perking though.

I'll just have to finish this post 

and get downstairs for my first cup.

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Now look at this cool window thingy.

 This is the bathroom window

in the cabin.  

The window is hinged at the top.

The knob unscrews ~ loosening it's grip

on the brass rod. 

Push the window out, 

tighten the knob and it holds

the window open for you.

The walls and ceilings

of the entire cabin were built

with this wood.  

It wasn't quite as red

as the photo shows. 

 Fuchsias grow like wildflowers over there.

Beautiful eh?

We woke up to wildfire smoke

in the middle of the night. 

The Coal fire is burning

north of us near where the Salt Creek 

fire was.  It's burned well over 200 acres

already.  Dang Dang Dang.

We had a week of clean air

and appreciated every breath of it.

Sigh.

Anyway, I hear Rick is up 

and letting Liberty out.

I'll finish this and get downstairs

to greet the morning with coffee

and probably toast with some

of that blackberry jam.

Have a great weekend!