I woke up this morning feeling a bit like death warmed over. Unfortunately, the feeling hasn’t much subsided. However, as I lay in bed this morning, waiting to feel well enough to crawl out of bed and try to be productive, I got to thinking about how grateful I am for a variety of things. ~ A warm home on…
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The world population jumping over the 7 billion mark has had me thinking a bit about my place in the grand scheme of things. So, after reading a few articles (here and here and here) and playing with a couple of gadgets (here and here) I decided to re-watch this video: I first saw this video about a week or so…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday everyone! Not much to report this week…I almost didn’t post…but then decided that any harvest is better than no harvest at all! So…yay for 4 pounds!!! I’m still hoping to make the 200 pound mark before the end of this year. Fingers crossed!!! All of this weeks tomatoes were turned into tomato sauce to go on our ravioli. They’re…
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Where Does Your Food Come From?
I’ve seen this video in a couple of different places recently, including on Allison’s blog, and finally decided it was time to post it here. It’s just too good to not share 🙂 Though the focus is on Canadian Agriculture, we face similar issues here in the U.S. Knowledge is power, and it’s the small steps that will get us where we…
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So, I found this cool blog that makes me happy and have decided to jump on the 2011 Color Photography Challenge bandwagon, even though 2011 is almost over…Better late than never, right?! The idea is to go with the color of the month (October’s color is orange), take as many (or as few) photos as you like and then post them 🙂…
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Buffalo Stew
What do you get when you take carrots and potatoes from the garden, onions, a bit of buffalo stew meat and some beef stock? The best stew ever! Well…at least one of the best stews ever 😉 Unfortunately, as happens most days, we didn’t do any measurements on anything…just browned the buffalo and onions while we chopped up the rest,…
