Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Change of (Beverage) Seasons

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It’s been a few years since we last broke out the old cider press. This is the same machine my family used to press apples when I was a litt...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Samhain Season Altar

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I’ve neglected my altar for many moons. Not for any particular reason - life just rushes in and gets in the way. Like everyone else’s, our ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Memorial Painting

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My memorial painting of Paloma with her sweet, deceased pet baby goat Stormy. I’m not a good painter by any means - in fact at some point d...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Just Cute Goat Pictures

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Paloma and Flopsy’s baby boy. I can’t decide who is cuter.  My goat-totin’ man, totin’ Bitsy and Bootsy, Christmas’ two doelings.  Hope bei...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

State of the Farm: Pandemic Edition

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The girls amuse themselves at home with Henna freckles  DQ2 - day two of “quarantine.” We aren’t officially quarantined, of course, and not ...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas’s Eve 2018 (with recipes)

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Another Christmas. Another year almost gone. As my children get older, each year seems more and more precious. As in years past, I made an a...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Little Altars Everywhere

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Beltane altar My religious background is very complicated. I was born Jewish, because my mother and her mother and her mother were Jews, al...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

Practicing Thankfulness (a look back)

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   A repost from a few years ago follows.  Although we have no turkeys this year, and many other things are different as well, it’s always, ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Quince Años for Hope

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Hope will turn fifteen in October. Fifteen is a major, major birthday in Mexico - in the old days it was the traditional coming of age birth...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

All the Fruit We Won’t Be Eating

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The cherries are just getting ripe. Paloma and I went out and picked this basket of cherries in about four minutes flat, off of one of our ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

The Long Goodbye

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Today at around five o'clock in the evening I got the call from hospice that my dad had died . It was anything but an unexpec...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Decisions, Decisions

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My youngest child, Paloma, says she doesn't like blackberries. Sadly, i see no option but to disown her. 
Friday, June 30, 2017

Coming of Age Custard Pie

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I am forty-five years old. Incredibly, there has not been a death in my immediate family since my last living grandparent - Grandma E...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

State of the Farm (Spring Equinox)

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grey spring I know, I'm a few days late on the equinox. That's okay, I feel like I'm a few days late on everything the...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Welcome Sheep

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The little brown blob in the lower left foreground of this picture is a young Jacob's sheep . She is about four or five months old, ...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Petrichor (Scent and Weakness)

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They say it is finally going to rain this weekend. Actually, they said the rain would start last night - and a little bit of rain did fall; ...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

High Summer Plans (Adios, Muchachas)

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On thursday, my nieces, who have been living with us for the past year, are going home to Oaxaca. It's been a good year, and we have enj...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Littlest Huntress

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Hope is ten, nearly eleven. She is a tall, graceful, athletic girl; just entering the stormy adolescent years. She is strong from gymnas...
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Monday, December 2, 2013

Potato Day, 2013 (Indoor Games)

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With the weather taking a sharp turn towards the shitty, and without a car capable of transporting all of us at once, we have recently found...