All last week was pretty warm so we decided to go ahead and get most of the spring garden in. As we have expanded our growing spaces, we tend to have one to two very full weeks of garden preparation and sowing every spring. So last week we set school aside, let the dishes and…
Apparently the time changed on us a couple of weeks ago. But do you know who doesn’t get the memo on such events? Livestock. Not a single rooster has heeded the new schedule, not a single goat, and certainly not Miss Mabel. I’m not even that sure that we, as a family, have fully embraced…
I am forever skeptical of big claims and new fangled “discoveries”. This is especially true in the realm of the health world where something new is suddenly the greatest thing since sliced bread. Every doctor, chiropractor, and midwife I have seen in the past decade have experienced my skepticism in the form of the incessant…
I was reminded these past two weeks of how little margin there are in our days. Everyone but Stewart came down with a cold or flu or something that had us slightly feverish and sniffling and coughing. It all started two Sundays ago and still, it lingers. But cows still need to be milked and…
