As some of you may know, we pasture our animals in portable, secure structures that grassfed industry types call ‘tractors’. They keep our animals on fresh grass daily, allowing them a clean and natural living environment that supplements their diets with a salad bar (bacon…
Last summer, the dog ate two of our chickens (and then the dog found a new home). We didn’t replace them because we weren’t sure if we were coming or going. So now we’re farm sitting in Inverhuron, and we moved our birds into the…
Last January was rocky, and regularly unpleasant. The start of 2012, by comparison has been as light and easy as the fluffy sheep who are my temporary charges. Our family has taken up with the Bourgeois, who own Philosopher’s Wool in beautiful Inverhuron. We are…
Chewing over resolutions. Mine usually involve fresh determination to keep our books in good order, nagging less, making new cheese. These resolutions are light, and self effacing. Life, land, love. Whatever hippy sentiment and sap I am rolling about in rises up and produces…
Winter hasn’t clamped down on us yet, we may actually get a green Christmas. I know we are supposed to be upset about warming weather, but when some years treat you to a full five months of 5 months of winter… visibility in December becomes…
Las Vegas was amazing. Rekindled friendships, romance. Refreshed our spirits. Truly a spectacular adventure, too many fantastics to list. I’d just be downright bragging if I even started. Thanks for the photos, Amina. We’ll see you again soon.
…we had high speed internet. If we did, I would have uploaded a video for you of Bob reading out loud, while Meeps practiced writing letters, and I would have titled the blog “This is What Homeschooling Looks Like”. Which on that morning, was about…
I have so much on my mind, but very little I feel like committing to the eternity of planet Blogsphere. Fall is well upon us, heaving it’s cold wet breath on our backs. Our firewood is soaking and not yet stacked in our garage, perhaps…
This summer brought us our first nephew, Kieran. Here we are happily making total fools of ourselves trying to keep him from fussing: We canoed lots, but never enough: Scott also got to join Tim and the Cut Down Crew on a hunting excursion. Our…
We are back from beautiful Montreal. It was, as usual, a very well run convention. Saw old friends, made new friends, and ate our way across the city. TriExpress served us up sushi I had never even seen the likes of before; Eggspectations, while a…