The Zesty Blueberry & Booze jam got rave reviews. With Mackenzie taking home half of the production from yesterday there was nothing else to do but make another batch. In recreating the recipe from yesterday I realized that we may have shortchanged the amount of Disaronno in the first batch. That was definitely rectified in […]
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Blueberry Jam!
The title says it all. Thank you to Briarlea Kitchen for wonderful berries. The taste is out of this world and so much better than anything else I have ever tasted. In preparation for the jam making, last night there was a taste test of possible flavour combinations. With friends over for supper, dessert came […]
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Holey Moses is down
Well, we all knew if was going to happen. And happen it did. Today Holey Moses was taken down for his last crash to earth.
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It’s gonna be a hot one
Gonna be another scorcher today, but I do love the early mornings to myself, on the porch with fresh coffee, cuddled into soft breezes and birdsong. Gymnastic red squirrels are twirling their way along the clothesline toward the bird feeders in the hopes of making a successful leap into a pile of breakfast. The birds […]
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Greenhouse
Thank you to Penny, Roberta and Mackenzie for all their help in putting up the greenhouse. And of course Dexter and Charlotte for being good dogs while we worked.
We’ve been eating radishes from our garden for about 6 weeks now, staggered planting is the key. But I overdid the last seeding and we ended up with way more than we could eat or give away. Plus they were getting too big and slightly woody. What to do? Freezing, canning or pickling. Spoiler alert […]
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Holey Moses
There was a huge wind storm on June 27th which brought down, among others I’m sure, a huge sugar maple tree in our back yard. The tree was in the range of 150 years old. All the things it’s seen! Being hollow in the middle with burls and branches everywhere, it was home to many […]
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Beautiful Bounty
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Chicken Diaries
June 21, 2020 We’ve had our hens almost 4 weeks. As first-timers we thought we would play it safe and get 6 ready-to-lay 18-week-old pullets instead of hand-raising cute baby chicks. They arrived in a green plastic crate and there exists a video of me opening that to release them into our carefully constructed chicken […]
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And we have an EGG!
Our chickens laid their first egg and it’s still warm! We don’t know who laid it and it was on the floor, not in a nesting box but this is proof that we are doing a few thing right. The girls love banana and strawberry tops but rhubarb not so much. They are also enjoying […]
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