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12.24.09 Christmas Eve
The world is quiet tonight, except for the sounds of the fierce wind blowing outside, the occasional crackle of the fire in the stove and a lone dog barking off in the distance.The house is filled with the scents of woodsmoke and cinnamon from the la...
The Cottage Crow
I have a lot left to do but some of what has kept me so busy lately has been trying to figure out how to sell some of my artwork and things locally. A large part of what I love doing is painting furniture, which is very hard to do because of space bu...
Pictures 12.9.09
Merry Yule tree :)...Shiny clean cranberries waiting to be strung....A string of cranberries hanging with assorted herbs and peppers....A second string across the long side of the kitchen....Lovely orange slices drying in the dehydrator.... Several s...
12.9.09
It snowed on and off all morning here, tho none of it stuck to the ground, which was odd because all the animal waters were frozen pretty hard. Odd or not, it was a lovely thing to see. The wind is a bit harsh today, so cold it is that just a few min...
Bad Eggs and Flood Dreams
Bad EggsIn all our years of having hens I have never had a bad egg. Eggs stay good for weeks as long as they're not to hot but even in the hottest part of summer they stay good with no refrigeration for at least a full week and more. Yesterday I was ...
11.5.9
We've fallen gently into the bed of Autumn. The temperatures, like Summer, have been very mild. So much so that it worries my practical self, but then my daydream dancing self is overjoyed by every little thing and soon I forget to worry.Forgetting t...
