Snow squalls today in Colebrook—10 minutes later the sky was clear & blue. We’ll see squalls all day today, most likely.

Just in time for Thanksgiving! The snow has covered everything up, but the turkeys will find whatever is there.

A fresh coating of snow overnight. Everything looks a little brighter & cleaner. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Afternoon: rain is letting up, snow is still with us. Fog drifts over the field and in the Mohawk River valley to the north.

Foggy, rainy morning with temperatures in the mid-30s. Lots of indoor housework to do.

It’s not unimaginable. This is the same peace deal the kremlin peddled to Trump in 2016 via Kilimnik. And don’t forget Jared’s multiple Middle East “peace deals” that never included Palestine. There’s been like three of those.

On this date 8 years ago: the dawn sky. There wasn’t much snow on the ground, but we had already been skiing around the yard.

If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

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So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.

Of course—because there is no Trump health care plan.

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Shades of Iraq.

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Part of the weekend’s work: 10 pints of marmalade. Some are to give to family and friends during the holidays.

Little red squirrel has hulled all the nuts in the basket and stashed them, so I guess it’s time for me to clean up the mess he left behind.

Morning sky.

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Little red squirrel hulling a black walnut. Wait until the end when he dashes across the yard to his stash in the woods.

Little red squirrel is raiding the bushel basket w/ leftover black walnuts. He can hull a nut quickly & then run across the yard to stash it for the winter.

It’s time to make marmalade again. My husband made this every fall just before the holidays, & I make it now in memory of him. It makes the house smell so fragrant.

Evening light on the far hills to the north. It’s been a beautiful day.

Cold morning in the teens here, but a sunny sky. Pie-baking today.

A cold winter night with icicles hanging from the eaves. Snug inside though.

Morning sky in the north country. Cold today but the sun is going to shine.

Approaching the end of a busy day. Received & tagged the last shipment of books for Kiwanis’s book giveaway tomorrow—then baked cookies for the clergy recognition dinner we’re holding tomorrow night. Still have walnuts to crack & toast & 2 pies to bake tomorrow for Builders Club Pie Sale Friday.

Raven approves of the new felted kitty bed that my daughter bought for her.

It’s getting dark & the rest of the flock has gone up into the woods to roost for the night, but these diehards are still scratching under the snow for insects & worms.

Two visitors to the bird feeder.

Large flock of wild turkeys in the front yard today, clustering around the crabapples.

Actions of fed agents absolutely outrageous & out of control.

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Cracking more black walnuts. The interior chambers of the walnut are formed in such a way that you have to break the nut into many pieces to get the nut meat (on left) out intact. Takes me about 1-3 minutes per nut, depending on what breaks.

Just finished making about 2 cups of candied black walnut meats from the walnuts I gathered this fall. My husband planted black walnuts from his mother’s house years ago & 4 trees lived, 2 are bearing nuts.

We now have about 8 inches of snow, the minimum amount needed to form a proper subnivean layer for the little animals, e.g. mice, weasels. Looks like the snow is here to stay.

Bullshit. This is not why housing is too expensive.

Going through some old photos this afternoon. This was my husband, age 3 or 4, sitting on his German grandmother’s lap when she came to the US for a visit after WW II.

She’s back this morning, still munching on the apple tree buds. Then she headed up the hills through the woods, towards the cabin. From her posture & size of dewlap I think she’s an older female.

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Early evening visitor today: a white-tailed deer under the apple tree. She’s looking for old apples the bear may have missed.

Not sure what he means by a “1939-type moment.” The year before, my father-in-law fled Germany after participating in an anti-Nazi rally.

It’s a beautiful winter day in the north country. You can see the tracks of the female moose around the apple trees in the yard.

My reward: 3/4 cup of black walnut meats. I didn’t count how many nuts I shelled, but it was about 40 nuts.

Mastered cracking the nut in such a way that I could remove the meat in one piece (not every single time). This one was a little shriveled, as were many that I cracked. Experts say soaking the nuts in water before cracking will plump out the meats.

My new black walnut cracker is working like a charm. Quite a bit of meat in that nut.