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A Needful Break
by Krista | Nov 7, 2014 | Spring
It's a quiet morning on the farm, sunny, hot, with the lazy, sultry feel that comes after a bit of rain. After spending 15 hours a day finishing my book, I am utterly exhausted. I'm spending the next few days resting so I can get back to normal life again without...
Making Quiet Moments and a Chunky Salad with Feta Dressing
by Krista | Oct 25, 2014 | Spring
Life is good but not very quiet for me right now. I'm up at 4:30 a.m. working on my book for a few hours until breakfast, then I'm outside to wrangle goats, take care of a sick mama, check on all the babies, water gardens to keep them alive during this drought, and...
Gorgeous Goslings and a Parmesan Souffle
by Krista | Oct 21, 2014 | Spring
If you paid a visit to our farm this week and happened to stroll by the plum orchard, you might be greeted by fierce hissing and serious stink eye from this chap, one of our Embden ganders. Bear has named him Goofy because he's so feisty, attacking ankles, boots,...
A Deeper Kind of Brave
by Krista | Oct 17, 2014 | Spring
“Over time I have come to believe that brave does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and DOING AS IT SAYS. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying....
Roasting Peppers and A Farm Breakfast
by Krista | Oct 10, 2014 | Spring
As I readied myself to get back to writing this morning, Bear looked at my frazzled self and suggested that I take a break for a bit and just work on things that have been niggling at me, projects that, when finished, would ease so much stress and enable me to write...
Shelling Purple Peas and a Cross-Cultural Potato Salad
by Krista | Oct 6, 2014 | Spring
My favorite gardening chore is shelling peas. There's something so peaceful about sitting with a huge bowl of peas, rhythmically stringing, shelling, tossing. When I was a little girl in Alberta, Canada, my Mum would plant 20 or more rows of peas every year. Some were...
Three Little Happy Things
by Krista | Oct 2, 2014 | Spring
You know how sometimes everything happens at once and you find yourself just a wee bit frazzled as you try to keep on top of it all? Well, it's that sort of week here as I collect and complete the last of my Australian visa paperwork and get it to our lawyer, finish...
Spring Mornings and Bush Lemon Marmalade
by Krista | Sep 30, 2014 | Spring
Spring is here with bright, clear mornings and sun-drenched afternoons. It is bliss to wake up in the morning without shivering, to see sunlight dancing on the gum trees outside the window, to see sparrows, finches, grass parrots, kookaburras, miner birds, magpies,...
Picking Bush Lemons with Bear
by Krista | Sep 26, 2014 | Spring
Before moving to Australia, I'd never heard of bush lemons, but now I'm a big fan. They are a marvelous lemon that grows wild in sub-tropical Australia, and our friend Oma has a huge tree. She gave us a couple of cuttings last year that are growing well but not...
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