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What’s for Dinner? Good afternoon. Yes, afternoon already. It is two days post Christmas and I’m dragging myself out of the ‘relax’ mode into ‘productive’ mode. This Christmas was just.So.RELAXING. This, in part because all of those Christmas boxes arrived, on time, to the right people and I didn’t have to call FedEx once to… Read More

      “Not according to a calendar or watch but the life cycles of the animals” Changing of another season, not according to a calendar or watch but the life cycles of the animals. The rams have been put out with the ewes with the hope of Springishness for them to be born. Time… Read More

Celebrating a whole new season! For the past twelve years John & I have been renting this farm from his  grandfather, and then after he passed away, his father. This summer we became owners! A HUGE thank you to my father-in-law for his his generosity and generational legacy. John & I knew that eventually a mortgage… Read More

We both just finished the Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox 12 day cleanse a few days ago and our thoughts…. Didn’t really feel like it affected us very much. No ‘surge’ of energy, or headaches, or huge withdrawals. If we had still been eating sugar circa just a few years ago, this would have been TOTALLY different. We… Read More

Cleaning… Today we spent several hours cleaning one room of ‘Summer piles’. The ones that I tell the boys, “just pop that over on that table, I will get to that later.”  Well, today we started in on those piles. Homeschooling starts for real in just two weeks so I have that time to de-clutter,… Read More

Bless the food before us, the family beside us, and the love between us. Amen.

Who becomes contemplative on Thanksgiving? Seems this whole week has found me thinking about all sorts of random events and ideas. Who is your family, your community? What traditions do you hold dear, how do you hygge and the time and effort put into all of them. Realizing that time is finite, you only have so many minutes… Read More