Be-Bop-A-Re-Bop

It’s rhubarb time! I’ve been harvesting all week and adding to my freezer stash of stalks, in hopes of a giant canning operation sometime next week. The whole family will get together to make it happen; someone chopping figs, someone pouring sugar, someone filling jars…and the little ones getting into mischief of epic [...]

I’m IT!

That is, I’ve been tagged! Does this mean I also have e-cooties? Goo. Anywho, I caught the bug from the lovely and brilliant Jen of Everydaymoments. I’ve had such a crush on her shop since it opened, it’s a little embarrassing.
Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. [...]

I dream in sepia

Or at least I will tonight! I spent most of today restoring old family snapshots, some of which were taken by my mom at age twelve. I have to say, she had a great eye! I’m nowhere near done, but I’ve started a flickr set devoted to restoration projects, complete with pie [...]

today…

…I did *almost* nothing. I didn’t make soap, I didn’t get very well caught up on my sewing and embroidery, and I didn’t (successfully) carry out my plan to take over the world, but I DID watch Lethal Weapon 2 and drink lots of tea. I’ve always been a tea drinker, but it’s [...]

mama day

I made the grave mistake of letting Zoe help me with the sheep this morning. She had done a great job of keeping her sister busy in the garden while I moved them to fresh pasture, and she was so set on trying to make my day easier that I gave in and let [...]