We are off to the county fair tonight. It is a mandatory summer activity. There will be no time for a real post, but here is a little list of great finds this week.
My package arrived from Camie at Red Gate Gardens today and it included not only coffee and a wonderful note, but two [...]
With some years on me and armed with a camera, I see my childhood home in a whole new light. My parents were away, they have a place in Nova Scotia, Canada. So, the girls and I went down to visit with the cat. We took some pasta I had pre-made in the fridge and [...]
“The Dancing Tiger” by Malachy Doyle, paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
“If you will keep my secret, and never tell a soul, then you may come and dance with me on nights the moon is whole”
I have her exclusive permission to publish her recipe (Mama’s privilege).
She made it for herself this morning and then agreed to teach me, because it is so very delicious.
I give it to you word by word:
1. Put handful of blueberries and blackberries in a bowl.
2. Add banana.
3. Put banana peel in the stinky compost jar.
4. [...]
2 lbs ground beef, bulk pork sausage, a dozen eggs, 1 lb local honey, bulk fresh butter, dozen cider donuts (notice we upped the ante from last week), homemade raspberry and peach yogurt, three tomatoes, six peaches, pint blueberries and pint gigantic blackberries.
$45.38
We could have done more damage, but I was short on cash so….with [...]
“I remember fingering the handle and feeling the rough edges of an old cup that I have cared for as I had tea with my mother and finally got to tell something I had been wanting to tell her for years. A year later I was drinking from that same cup the afternoon my friend [...]
She started having anxiety attacks again in West Virginia.
The obsessive fears. This time of stopping breathing, heart stopping, breast cancer, appendicitis, meningitis? What are these things Mommy?What if it happens to me? What if I stop breathing in the middle of the night? Mommy, I cannot make the worries stop and I’m so tired of [...]
Given to Ems by my sister (the of all things, librarian), I actually found this delightful book in those endless wanderings on Amazon.com. The here’s what others bought cycle of just one more…..one more…one more.
“Library Lion” by Michelle Knudsen, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.
It’s the story of a lion who wanders into the library and becomes [...]
