Eating from the Garden...growing on an island acreage.

Post Christmas Post

2017-01-08T21:20:00.000-08:00

These Hallmark ornaments are much cuter coming out of the boxes, than they are when you have to put them all away! Oh my word. Hope you had a lovely Christmas and that you are all organized for the new year by now. 🎉 This is one of the lovely things our daughter gave us for Christmas. I just adore it. It's hand stitched by a friend of hers that has an Etsy shop - Mrs. Caiterbug She

Cookies, Piggie, and other Sweet Things 🍬

2016-12-19T13:19:00.000-08:00

I LOVE to bake Christmas cookies, but this year presented a new challenge...how to make our favorites gluten-free. The cookies pictured here are a new version of peanut blossoms, which are my all time, forever and ever, favorite Christmas cookie. It would be fun to try and figure out how many dozen of these I have actually baked over the years! This version uses almond butter instead of

All Decked Out 🎄

2016-12-09T10:39:00.000-08:00

Inside and out, our home is decked out for the holidays! This is a large holly tree that's at the end of our driveway. It's perfectly shaped and looks very cheerful with big bulbs. My hubby patiently put the lights on again this year - thanks for indulging me honey. 💗 Our winter blooming rhododendron is still very showy. We didn't remember it blooming last year so it was an

Ruffling Feathers

2016-11-21T10:29:00.001-08:00

Our chickens are getting bigger all the time and have such funny personalities! There are definitely pushy ones, loners, and instigators. It's nice having the coop close to the house so we can be entertained. Their coloring is getting quite exotic now, and a couple of them look like they're wearing goat hair boots. 🐐 And yes, Malcolm does have them eating out of his hand - ha! This

An Awesome Autumn 🍁

2016-11-16T10:36:00.000-08:00

One of the first fall rituals we enjoyed this year was visiting an apple orchard - this one near Bellingham, WA called Bellewood Acres. We picked some of the most enormous apples we'd ever seen! These were Bellewood Prince variety. The available golf carts that you got to wield around the rows made it even more fun, and that little view of Mt. Baker in the background didn't hurt

Timber

2016-11-13T09:10:00.000-08:00

We had a tree cutting event at our house on Saturday! Trees needed to come down so that we could have a little more sun on our garden, and to decrease a bit of the threat of trees falling where they aren't welcome. 🌲 These next two pictures are the before and after shots from the garden view. They're a little hard to make out, but the difference is pretty dramatic, and Lord willing

Our Little Piggy Went to Market

2016-11-09T14:41:00.000-08:00

Meet Pork and Beans. 😋 Our friends have been raising these pigs since early this year, and one of them is ours - errrr was ours. Slaughter day was yesterday, and now we wait for our custom butcher order to be ready. Bacon...bacon, bacon. We're getting the hocks as well as some other more unusual parts so we can make tasty, rich, nourishing stocks and bone broths. We'll also be getting lard to

A Beautiful Farewell Journey - Part 1

2016-11-04T00:23:00.000-07:00