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Our Harvest Decor

When we empty the garden, we give our home a whole new look. It may not be the latest fashion, but it works for us…for a while.  Here are our tomatoes in the verandah.  This is one of the best crops we’ve ever had!  Missing from the picture are the nine boxes containing ripe tomatoes that will be turned […]

This Week at Home: Frost, Salsa, and the National Parks

Well, this week we had frost, made salsa, and ‘visited’ some national parks.  On top of that, we hiked along (and in) the river, discovered a skunk visiting the chickens, started judo, and roasted wieners and marshmallows in the rain.  The children did some formal schoolwork too, of course, and are progressing well, but the […]

Fit Mommy Friday

  This was a week of accomplishments.  I braved a 5 km hike on slightly hilly terrain, as well as a river hike that had exhausted me three years ago before I became extremely ill.  What a blessing!  I was also able to make salsa, with the children’s help of course, for the first time […]

TWT: Preserving Basil

helping each other be good stewards of all our resources: money, possessions, time, energy, and health With frost creeping up on us, it is time to deal with our 15-foot triple row of basil.  We are preserving it in three different ways. For the times when we only want a little bit of the herb, […]

This Week at Home: 3R’s and More

The highlight of  this week is that we’ve had no frost yet!  A few times it’s been close enough that we had get up early and sneak outside to see if there was frost on our deck. If the deck had been slippery, we would have bundled up and sprayed the entire garden with water to […]