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Down by the River
by Krista | Jan 29, 2021 | Summer
The wind is hurtling through the trees this afternoon bringing glorious coolness that made it downright pleasant working outside. Bear and I designed, cut, shaped, and sanded cutting boards for my Etsy shop today, stopping regularly for chats and cuddles with the dogs...
Planning My Good Life
by Krista | Jan 10, 2021 | Summer
When I look outside today I can't help but smile. There is green grass as far as I can see, across the farm yard, over the hills, and disappearing into the woods. New Year's Day gave us the greatest gift – a deluge of rain. My joy and relief is deep, my gratitude...
What I Can and Homemade Mustard
by Krista | Nov 1, 2020 | Spring
Wind continues to howl through the tree tops for the third day in a row, scattering leaves and branches around the farm yard and keeping us nice and cool. Since we're only one month away from the blistering heat of summer, I'm overjoyed by every cool day we get. We...
Good for Me
by Krista | Oct 6, 2020 | Spring
We're having the most spectacular weather at the moment with endless sunshine and wonderfully cool breezes sending the gum trees dancing. The drought continues unabated as we return to severe water restrictions and hope, hope, hope for rain, but outside my office is a...
The Peace of Wild Things
by Krista | Sep 5, 2020 | Spring
"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild...
The Last Day of Winter and a Spring Breakfast
by Krista | Aug 31, 2020 | Winter
It's quiet on the farm just now. Bear has run to town after working on a medieval project all morning, the dogs are snoozing after their morning exploration of the farmyard, and the goats and sheep are meandering peacefully through the paddock after filling up on the...
Don’t Lose Heart
by Krista | Jul 12, 2020 | Winter
"Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all of the darkness." Desmond Tutu It has been raining gently off and on through the night and this morning turning our hard-packed land into glorious mud. The brown, brittle grass is already turning green and...
A Time for Gentleness
by Krista | May 20, 2020 | Autumn
It was cloudy and dark today with the finest of sprinkles falling now and then, just enough to make a little puff in the dust and fill the air with that lovely scent of damp earth. We are hoping for rain, proper rain, a farmer's rain, but we'll give thanks for even...
Rebuilding
by Krista | Feb 26, 2020 | Summer
Slowly but surely I'm getting back into the gentle rhythms of a life not marked by one catastrophe after another. I'm learning to breathe deeply again, to relax my shoulders and unclench my stomach and be at peace instead of desperately trying to keep afloat as...
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