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In A Bit of A Pickle
by Krista | Dec 23, 2016 | Summer
Storm clouds are building on the horizon as lusciously cool winds blow through the gum trees. It's been like this for the last few nights, and Bear and I have luxuriated in it, sitting on our back veranda watching animals and clouds, hoping for rain. A couple of...
Little Cabin in the Woods
by Krista | Dec 12, 2016 | Spring
When Bear asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday this year, I didn't even have to think about it before saying, "I want to make good memories." As fun as it is to open pressies, to me it's more fun to collect experiences with people I love. Bear, being more...
A Merry Wonky Christmas
by Krista | Dec 5, 2016 | Summer
This holiday season I've been delighting in the things that other people are doing. I scroll through Facebook and Instagram every day grinning at family pictures and Christmas tree gathering and sledding and baking and the wearing of crazy Christmas sweaters. I flip...
Let the Light Back In
by Krista | Nov 16, 2016 | Spring
If I had a blanket fort, I would've been hiding in it the last couple of weeks, quilts pulled tight around my shoulders, an Only Nice People Allowed sign scrawled in crayon and pinned to the front entrance. The world has felt shaky and scary for reasons I'm still...
A Good Bit of Rest
by Krista | Nov 8, 2016 | Spring
The wind is howling through the trees, sending anything not securely fastened skittering across the farmyard. It's wreaking havoc on gardens throughout the region, but is doing a first rate job of drying laundry in record time...if you can manage to get it to stay on...
Just Home
by Krista | Nov 2, 2016 | Spring
The sun is sinking low over the fields and I'm parked in front of a fan, cold spiced tea beside me as I edit photos and watch Psych reruns. It's been an exquisite day of just home-ness. After weeks of dashing hither and thither for various jobs, meetings, and...
Music, Quiet, and A Bit of Farm Life
by Krista | Oct 20, 2016 | Spring
I'm sitting in a blissfully quiet house, comfy on my bed with the windows flung open to catch even a hint of a breeze on this hot-as-blazes-still-before-the-storm afternoon. Bear and I went out earlier to make sure everyone was fed and watered, and now he's off...
Making Time for the Beautiful
by Krista | Oct 18, 2016 | Spring
It's a gorgeous morning on our farm, the wild winds and pelting rains of yesterday forgotten in a wash of sunlight and stillness. The world looks clean and bright and all is peaceful. Recently a retired friend of mine told me that she'd spent the 50 best years of her...
Mulberries, Pasta, and Lemongrass Iced Tea
by Krista | Oct 12, 2016 | Spring
It's a gorgeous afternoon, soft and golden, cool and green, our goats and sheep nibbling contentedly among the shifting shadows of the gum trees. A lime yogurt cake is baking in the house, and Bear and I just finished a break on the veranda, watching our little world...
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