Homemade bread! Homemade pizza! Homemade jam! Raising chicks! Starting a garden! It’s amazing the pursuits people are turning to with extra time on their hands. Contrary to what popular memes might try to convince you, social media and the grocery store shelves are telling me the world is not just sitting around streaming movies all day. I LOVE that so many people are sharing pictures of their sourdough, seedlings, and cooking triumphs. What I don’t love is not being able…
“You’re all very lucky! With Rachel and I both temporarily out of work due to COVID-19, you’re likely to get a lot more posts than we’ve been providing these last six months or so.” Famous last (well, I suppose first, since they began our previous post) words. Here it is, 34 days since our last posting, and not a single post in the month of April. Quarantine has not turned out to be the extraordinary free time experience we’d thought…
We haven’t done much this past year. We didn’t milk, we didn’t have much of a garden, we never sent out Christmas cards (we barely even decorated), and school has been woeful these last few weeks especially. If we’re going to remember 2019 as a family I think we’re likely to remember it as the year that fell through the cracks. A lot of it has to do with the construction in the house, which just sent everything completely topsy-turvy….
We recently became the proud owners of 7 bushels of tomatoes and 2 bushels of peppers. They weren’t grown by us, they were seconds given to us by a woman we know who works for a farm. Needless to say, we’ve been making a lot of sauce. I found this recipe and I highly recommend it! While working our way through the many pounds of tomatoes, Steve suggested altering the recipe a bit to get a Roasted Tomato Soup. I…
How’s the house project going? Well, we originally hoped that we’d be on the finishing touches right about now. Unfortunately, right at the beginning of the project we found we’d need to move the gas meter, and waiting for National Grid to get that taken care of put us eight weeks behind schedule. So we still have a way to go. But we’re not talking about that. We’re going to talk about the progress we HAVE made! The boys are thrilled with the…