I Love Muffins.

       I made up these lovely little Butternut Cardamom Muffins this morning.  They were inspired by the season.  I used roasted butternut squash from our garden and I decided to throw a dash of cardamom in.  That was after getting my package from Harney & Sons Tea.  I bought a few new teas this time and one has [...]

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Where did October go?

          Most of our harvesting is now done.  I wanted to share out potato digging picture.  It is my favourite.  Digging potatoes is always a fun, looked forward to, family thing, I guess.  We dug up some gorgeous red potatoes and some very odd-shaped yellows.       Life has been filled with everyday things.  I work, I [...]

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Seventeen

     “Seventeen!?!  You can’t turn seventeen! You can’t! You’re going to get old!”                                                 -Jessica, nearly in tears.  Age five.      Yes, that’s me.  Old.  I confess, sometimes I do feel old.  Especially when I’m waiting for the school bus with little kiddos buzzing around me.  Most of the time… I just feel like a [...]

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Cherry Red Season.

     I feel somehow inadequate to be writing a blog post… Not feeling quite for it but it’s overdue, for sure.      There is a cherry pie in the oven,  Seven quarts of pie cherries and seven little jam jars of sour cherry jam cooling, just out of the canner.  It is the season of [...]

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