Prairie Garden

We will be doubling our garden space this next growing season. This weekend, we chose a new location - lots of sun with good, dark soil - an...

My brother was here today, bringing furniture and boxes of books for storage, getting ready to move to Avon, CO this weekend -- four-turned-...

Here, alive, crabby. That is how I feel today. I think I need a breather? Squeeze is going to be home for four days in a row this week, tha...

Squeeze: "What's going on, Do?" Truen: "Don't know, Dada . . ." - - - - - - - - - - Diego: "Mama, I am hick...

I've got a cow tongue boiling in a pot on the stove. Right now. In a pot. And it turned white. I have an old fear-and-avoidance of cow...

Truen's three favorite questions right now are -- "Wha' daaaaat?" "Wha' 'appennned?" "Whyyyyyy, Maa...

Because I never have enough time to write a well-thought-out, revised-to-my-standards post these days, I'm going to make a list of my cu...

This is a terrific post , written by Carrien at She Laughs at the Days . She gets right down to the marrow of what haunts my mind on a semi-...

I was just going to post on how I noticed this morning that I am most pleased with life when I am intellectually or emotionally stimulated, ...

-- Little Trubies turned two the week before last -- Happy LATE Birthday lil' Pumpkin Two days old Two years old (Sorry for the blur...

My friend Suzy Popchicks (not her real name) asked me if I had any book recommendations for a potentially-pregnant lady. Wellllll, yes. Of c...

From top to bottom: Squeeze's homemade wine, tomatoes under paper grape jam, tomato sauce, salsa, fermented veg (salsa, cukes, ...

Reading to myself. Reading aloud to Diego -- the Little House books (we are Farmer Boy right now, which is the 3rd book) and I am enjoying...

The boys were thrilled to carve pumpkins this year Squeeze's pumpkin was yet another --- ROBOT --- (getting his bum tweaked) Mrrrrrrrr...

Truen has been talking in his sleep -- "Food ready, Mama?" "More raisins . . . more raisins . . ."

The pain of a new idea is one of the greatest pains in human nature...after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs il...

I actually had time last night to do a non-food and non-kid related activity: I made my own deodorant. I've been using this particular d...

Vats of applesauce Scads of potatoes (115 lbs) - the fingerling, La Ratte! Tomatoes up the wazoo - sauce, salsa, soup Green tomatoes under p...

After a pleasant work day with a friend - with an evening break for berry-picking - 60 lbs of tomatoes and a variety of peppers and garlic a...

Did I really just spend over an hour perusing Facebook while my children were sleeping when I should have been hanging laundry, making break...