Sourdough Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Bread
"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Autumn and its burnished beauty never disappoints. I find myself asking as I drive down...
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What’s in That Can of Pumpkin and How to Make Your Own
Over the past few years, the fever-pitch over Pumpkin Everything has reached epidemic levels. I don't mind, as I think it is one of the most versatile, delicious, inexpensive, healthy add-ins to almost anything. I make pumpkin muffins and breads, pumpkin pancakes and...
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Back-to-School Lunchbox Smoothies
Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James The wonderful lazy afternoons of summer are winding down and we will be back in full-routine next week when school starts. I'm...
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To Everything There is a Season
"I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does." ~Anne of Green Gables I have blogged only twice in the past two years, and life has changed a lot during the passing of that time. I've discovered that for the most part, for me,...
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On Thanksgiving and Grief
It’s been 364 days since I last wrote and I’ve never had so much inside me, yet so little power to articulate. The past year’s events mean life will never be the same. And yet in so many ways, life is the same. The week after my mom died I reached out to a friend who...
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Grace upon Grace
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us -- and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from...
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The Last Summer Post
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change."~ E.B. White, Charlotte's...
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A Chicken Summer
Summer was full of chickens:New chickens,old (grumpy) chickens,under-achievers,over-achievers,births,deaths.And problems (always problems)... and projects (always projects)...The chicken problem we deal with most often is broody hens. The natural instinct for a hen to...
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Oregon Berries
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.~Shakespeare, Henry IVA couple of years ago I was reading a post by one of my favorite homesteaders, Quinn at Reformation Acres, where she mentioned in passing she was excited...
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