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    Reflections

    2024 Reflections

    It’s hard to believe we’re back in this liminal space again already… Sitting on the threshold of a new year… While reflecting on so.many.happenings of this year. And yet, here we are. Working on and with the land is always full of lessons and unexpected experiences and 2024 was no exception. We enjoyed a warm spring, a wildly abundant fruit…

  • Reflections

    Winter’s Rest

    After a full, long year, moments of rest and reflection seem fleeting in the face of 2023, don’t they? Counting down the days and hours until we “begin again” take on a fever pace as we are conditioned to look back, tally up all our accomplishments, celebrate our wins, plan to better our “failures”, and jump into a New Year,…

  • Homesteading,  Reflections

    2018 in Review – Another Year in the Books!

    Despite my sporadic presence here this year, I simply could not let us slip into 2019 without a review of 2018, now could I?! It seems as though the thing to do these days instead of making a resolution or two to kick off a new year is to pick a word as a theme to focus on in the…

  • Family,  Homesteading

    The Autumn Slide

    What a summer it’s been! I swear to you that I’ve written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen, if you will). I’ve thought around how to communicate months…

  • Homesteading,  Reflections

    Just like that…

    I didn’t believe the adults in my life who told me, when I was still young and free and hadn’t a care in the world, that the older I’d get, the faster time would pass. And yet, here I sit on the third day of a brand new year, wondering where the time has gone. It’s true that 2017 went by…

  • Coffee and Bizcochitos
    Eat,  Family,  If we were having coffee...

    If we were having coffee and bizcochitos

    If we were having coffee,  I’d greet you with a great big hug (if you’re amenable to such things) and tell you how happy I am to see you! It’s been far too long since we’ve sat together and I’m so very happy you’re here! I’d ask you how you’re doing, how your family is, and how your holidays are…