
We did a lot of cooking this year, because we had three Thanksgivings in a row. It started out on Tuesday with an early stinky-fish day (when the stinky fish man comes to the house with a box of fish...
Having livestock, especially short-lived livestock, is not easy. You have to face death and your own mortality on a regular basis. Today we said goodbye to Janis, who has been very sick since this winter when she had a prolapsed...
All three of the boys were in the cat tree this afternoon, enjoying the sunbeam....
My friend Gwen brought me a box of grapes from her back yard. They smelled like summer and grapes and wonderfulness. The sweet, aromatic smell like a Concord grape, only green. I tried two different methods for making jam, since...
During my first set of college years, I had a summer/work study job as a gardener. You might think that the major lessons were about plants and how to grow things, which I did learn. But the biggest lessons I...