So Long 2016

About this time last year–when I was looking back and reflecting on what I’d gotten done–I called 2015 “the best year yet.” I got so much

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Hello, November

The first day of November and it’s probably not even really cold enough out right now to merit a bonfire. But don’t think that’s stopping

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Back at It

For most of September I was doing my best to maximize my time out in those last beautiful, sunny days of summer. But now we’ve

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One Really Big Sink

As a general rule, I do not get excited about things that are related to doing the dishes. (Shocking, I know.) I mean, unless the

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Farm Adventures: Spring 2016

It’s been an incredibly stressful couple of weeks around here– the kind of weeks where I feel like I’m just barely keeping things together– and

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The First Best Day

This is my fifth spring on the farm, and I still haven’t gotten used to how quickly things go from waiting, waiting, waiting for the weather

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Unpacking & Repacking

I’m having a hard time sitting down to write anything, and that’s because half of my house is way too organized right now and the

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The Treasure Room

There’s a room in the house I don’t often talk about. Years ago, I used to call it the “tool room”, but, as it turns

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