Monthly Archives: November 2024

Home Comforts

  “There’s nothing like staying home for real comfort.” -Jane Austen     The rain has not stopped for two weeks – or has it been longer? With the soggy grounds and the mud soaked boots, we have had endless cleaning at the doorways … This has been one of the wettest, dreariest Novembers in […]

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Tucked in for Winter – The Provision Room {2024}

“Run down and get the cinnamon, will you, Joey?” said Polly; “it’s in the ‘Provision Room.” The “Provision Room” was a little shed that was tacked on to the main house, and reached by a short flight of rickety steps; so called, because as Polly said, “’twas a good place to keep provisions in, even […]

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