Joining Ginny and others for Yarn Along (and this week she’s hosting a giveaway, so be sure to stop by).
This was an exciting week for knitting. I don’t know quite how this happens – I don’t think of myself as having a lot of free time for knitting, but somehow those little stitches add ...
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Every now and again, I like to make my weekly menu from a single cookbook. (You may remember last winter’s week of Ad Hoc – oh so yummy). Of course, you can’t do this with just any ol’ cookbook. I picked up a used copy of Cooking from Quilt Country at our ...
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This poem is so appropriate, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you. It’s from the book Ten Poems to Set You Free that I mentioned in Yarn Along. (And yes, we’re using soil blocks to start our seeds, just like last year – we love them!)  Those of you who know me, know ...
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Yesterday was Tu Bishevat, the Birthday of the Trees on the Jewish calender. It’s traditional to plant a tree on this day, but, um, there’s more snow falling outside on top of our three-foot drifts.
We spent the week planting some of the season’s first seeds (lettuces and cold hardy greens), deciding which fruit trees ...
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Joining Ginny and many others today for Yarn Along – knitting and books, what could be better?

This week, it’s a hard choice of what’s more urgent to knit – super warm mittens or super warm socks.  At the moment, socks are winning.  I’m using this Shadow Box sock pattern with more of my leftover alpaca ...
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I’ve been working this month (and will be all year, surely) to find contentment, nay, happiness, with what I’ve got.  To me, this means using the materials I already own instead of dreaming about and buying more.  Sewing with the fabrics I’ve been given and inherited, knitting with the yarn waiting in my basket, eating ...
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On Saturday, we got up extra early and loaded both bread decks full of Local Loaf goodness. We filled our racks with cookies, scones, and local bran muffins, and drove with many helpers to enter the fray at the Northampton Winter Fare, put together by CISA. We had a 2010 grain share on ...
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Hello everyone, and happy weekend!  Welcome back to Whole Grain Weekends, a space to share and explore cooking with whole grains!  Whole Grain Weekends will be happening in this space the first and third weekends of the month.  I’m going to post a recipe and photos, and have a space below ...
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It’s another snow day here, perfect for reading and knitting and playing.  We all went out into the storm and laughed harder than we’ve laughed in a long time.

Inside, the cat curled up on my knitting as soon as I spread it out on the table for Yarn Along.  So under fluffy Jasper is this ...
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(photo by Ben on New Year’s Day)
Taking Joy
Twenty seven now, I am ready.
I gather all the old depression journals,
the teenage collages and melancholic cds, and I put them out
on the curb.  Don’t leave us, they cry,
you need us, we are part of you.
I turned my back, I forgave us all
and walked inside to this life,
where ...
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