• Create

    Sky Blanket

    There’s just something about watching the sky day after day and finding a rhythm in nature through intentional observation. I have fantasies about tracking the weather patterns on our Eventual Farm…learning the ebb and flow of nature in our own personal micro-climate…how each day of sunshine, each drop of rain,…

  • House & Home

    1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bathrooms & Laundry Room

    Alright, so I promised I’d show you the whole house…so you’ve now, officially, seen the whole house 😉 OK, OK…I know this post only shows snippets of the bathrooms and Laundry Room, but who really need to see toilets, washer, dryers, and our misc. toiletries? Exactly! So, beyond their utilitarian…

  • House & Home

    1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bedroom

    Well, you’ve seen our Kitchen, Dining Room/Office and Living Room, so I guess that means that today is the day you get to peek into our (miraculously clean, even if just for the photos) bedroom! Excited? Good 😉 Now, what can I say about it beside the fact that it’s huge…

  • DIY - Eat

    Cranberry Sauce

    Cranberry Sauce is one of those things I never thought twice about until just a few years ago. I mean really, what’s there to think about? It comes in a can, you buy it around the holidays (and really, only around the holidays), it comes in jellied form or in…

  • House & Home

    1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Living Room

    If you’ve seen our Kitchen and our Dining Room, you know by now that all of the rooms in our hacienda are quite large, right.  Well, let me just tell you that, at ~475 square feet, our Living Room alone is larger than the little studio apartment my oldest daughter…

  • DIY - Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    Dehydrating Old Apples

    Ever have grand plans that fall through when real life gets in the way? Yeah, it’s a thing! After all of the harvesting was done from our young apple trees on the urban farm, I was sure I’d get busy with baking everything-apple-under-the-sun! I started off with a bang with…