It was an exciting morning around here…I was tending chickens and thinking that the cows from next door were bawling a lot but sounded closer than usual, so they must be right at the fence. Then the ground started to rumble and when I looked up, about 2 dozen beautiful beasts were thundering up from […]
My maternal grandmother made this lovely savoury chutney. It was a favourite growing up, eaten with Saltines and sharp cheddar. My three siblings and I could go through a jar in seconds flat so our mother only brought them out on special occasions. There somehow became this rite of passage. You had to love chutney […]
Dexter’s cousin, Farley, came to visit today. Farley is a 9 week old boxer puppy and we had a tough time getting a clear picture of this busy little body. Farley was fascinated by the chickens and kept running over to the coop to check them out. They barely paid any attention to him. He […]
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.
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.
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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