- Foggy morning with the sun streaming through. The countryside looks so picturesque in the muted light.
- Apple cheddar scones – hallelujah!
- Sitting drinking English Caramel tea in the good china in our PJs at home on a cool, rainy autumn day.
- Bread baking day – the whole house smelling divine.
- Stumbling onto an armadillo while [...]
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Not Martha‘s Tentacle Pot Pie - Garlic Soup - Black Bean Soup - Homemade Graham Crackers - Whole Wheat (mostly) Sunflower Seed Bread - Woodspirits Soaps scent stories - Texas wine [...] - The house smelling like bacon from rendering 7 quarts of lard. This morning my mother and I participated in a local Oktoberfest celebration market. Hubs suggested I start selling all these crafty things that I do, so I filtered through boxes and found four kinds of soap, some reusable flannel hankies, some grapefruit marmalade and some plum sauce to sell. My mother had some jewelery that she [...] The sun streaming through the trees on a foggy morning last week For the past two weeks, we’ve had an extra guest here at the Hacienda. My farmer friend Miguel has been staying with us during the week and helping us around the property. He helps run a nearby successful CSA farm but has agreed to come [...] Most of my links this week are around food it seems. It’s getting cooler, I’m cooking for four people every weekday now so it’s on my mind a lot lately. - How to render lard – This week I cleaned out my freezer in preparation for deer season and discovered 15 pounds of pork fat. I [...] - Walking around the property at dusk talking plans. Last week, Miguel built us a chicken run for the girls. They have been cooped up in their new coop for almost a month and their misery was showing – one egg every few days. I felt so bad for them, the new coop has a hardware cloth bottom on it for better predator protection, but [...] Besides the obvious of always needing things like fencing and T-posts and tillers that go on the back of the tractor, there seems to be a never-ending list of interesting things going on. Treated versus untreated water This morning, the water in the house appeared to be cloudy and yellow so I went to go check the [...] - A creative use of underwear: - Tiny hedgehog coasters: - A bag holder for putting leftovers in: - Drawing inspiration from the regrets of the dying - Quilts of your city or [...] |
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