It’s been lovely warm weather here since mid-week up until yesterday when the temperature made it to 53F/ 12C. I am laughing right now because when I googled to convert fahrenheit to celsius, one of the list of expandable Google questions that appeared on the results page was “Is 50 degrees Fahrenheit cold?” James and …
Category: Food
The End of the Garden Season
Just big enough to eat Last weekend, since there were only pole beans and squash left in the garden, I carefully placed protecting barriers around them so the chickens could finally be allowed in again. They were all standing at the gate between gardens, hoping that a treat was forthcoming. Little did they know what …
Now We’re Cookin’!
Two years ago James and I decided to replace our gas range with an electric one. The gas range was 20-years-old and the control panel was cracked and wearing out. But then COVID struck and no way were we going to have someone in our house. So we waited. The cracked timer button broke. The …
Feed Me
You have, no doubt, noticed prices going up for all sorts of things. Last week James and I went grocery shopping and because we buy only organic and fair trade we are used to paying a little more for certain things. But inflation is biting into the organic market too these days. Generally we buy …
And We Walked in Fields of Gold
Well, maybe not walked, more like crawled. And not exactly a field, more like a grassy park area next to picnic tables. There was a field adjacent, a baseball field belonging to an elementary school. Gold though, there was plenty of gold. We caught peak dandelion. Within less than half an hour, we had filled …