Here is my little goat named Violet – an overly-tame bottle baby that we had kept too long in the kitchen while it was very cold weather. Her mother is a young yearling goat, and didn’t know what to do with her baby. At first Violet slept in a little bin by the wood stove,…
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
I am so, so excited to share this! I have been working so hard to bring this to a physical form – it has felt like a real birth experience, where the laboring is harder than you realized, and you aren’t sure if you’ll make it! This is the book I have dreamed about and…
Marking Boundaries
There are so many things I am learning on this new journey. I am learning now to mark the boundaries. The corners are the most important things to make strong. Posts must be level. Fencing is really hard work. Machinery is amazing. Friends who help you with fencing are real friends, no doubt about that. Measure more than once. Don’t be stingy. I am…
A New Beginning
Over this past difficult summer I spent a lot of time away from the land I love, visiting friends and people whose company I enjoy. My friend John took me on adventures when he was in town visiting. One day we went all the way to the gulf, to the end of the day and the end…
Roasted Butternut Squash With Peanut Satay Sauce
They went on, and farther on, and they waded through rivers above the knee, and they saw neither sun nor moon, but they heard the roaring of the sea.… It was mirk, mirk night, there was no starlight, and they waded through red blood up to the knee, for all the blood that’s shed on…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 6: Maine – The Ocean
The next part we spent by the shore. The Maine beaches are so bright and beautiful! And the day was so warm that the water was actually warmer than in Florida as the tide was rising over the hot beach stones. It’s so beautiful! The colors, the textures! The gravely sand and pebbles and shells!…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 5: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
We went to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden our first day. It’s very exclusive – you have to make reservations beforehand, and there’s no sign for the entrance. They have several layers of security docents with lists of people with reservations to go through before you can park and walk to the garden. It is…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Maine
We have never been to Maine before. It’s so far up North, and a little out of the way of everything else, but we really loved it! Everyone is so friendly in the little towns there, and everywhere is so pretty. It has a certain set of colors to the landscape, and a quality of…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Connecticut
[Confession – I didn’t realize I couldn’t correctly spell Connecticut until I started writing about it here- yikes!!! How did I get to my age this way?!] We did eventually end up in Connecticut, using our vintage 1973 Connecticut state map, with advertisements along the edge for businesses that had closed decades ago. We stayed…
TRAVEL JOURNAL: Pennsylvania
The following parts of our trip were not documented, due to the phone charging cord having become lost under the seats of the car, so you will just have to imagine our uneventful drive over to French Creek State Park in Elverson, Pennsylvania, with us listening to Tress of the Emerald Sea read aloud by…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 2: Virginia
We had already been here on our last camping venture up North a couple of years ago – this time at least we had invested in a new camp stove, and we didn’t have to worry about a propane explosion like last time! It gives me confidence to know some life problems CAN be solved!…
Travel Journal 1: North Carolina
The girls and I have forsaken Florida at the moment, and the triple-digit summer, and life problems, etc, for perhaps one of our last travel adventures all together! As great as this sounds, things can still get a little contentious several hours into an 8-hour car ride, believe it or not. Our first stop was…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 