“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder “Be quiet, now, children, and don’t touch anything on the shelves,” I warned, as we entered the store — a store I had wanted to visit since moving to our newest location. This particular local tourist […]
“Cooking as an art — ‘Hidden Art’, if you want to call it so – should be recognized and then developed in everyone who has to cook, wants to cook or could cook! Cooking should not be thought of as a drudgery but as an art. The danger today.. […]
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott This little island was hit with two major storms in the past week – what a fantastic experience! Yes, we lost power but we were prepared. I’m about to write some more of my thoughts of […]
It’s -20c degrees outside right now. And yet, every morning, each girl in this house opens their bedroom windows and air out their bedrooms. I open the kitchen windows slightly and have fresh air creeping in as I wash the breakfast dishes. Our bedroom window is opened, allowing beautiful clean air in to […]
“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev’ning in.” -The Task: The Winter Evening/William Cowper […]
