Thank you, dear friends, known and unknown, for all your incredible words and emails these past few days.  You’ve touched us so deeply, and I am so grateful.  I was really, really nervous about that post, and you could not have been kinder. Here, I am taking care to work harder than usual to be ...
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It’s my sad work tonight to type these words:  On Monday, we lost our baby. (Why do English words fail this experience so miserably?  Lose a baby?  Miscarriage?  As if, oops, we didn’t notice and the baby just slipped out somewhere along the way.)  My dear friend Heather wrote powerfully about sharing the experience of ...
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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 at the end you can add a link to your recipes, too!  The ...
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Conception The week you enter our lives, it rains and rains. The rooster shakes his tail feathers in the drizzle and crows for the first time. I had wanted a life ready for you – sheep grazing in the orchard, every room painted the right color. We knew already the ways we would fail you. ...
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Have a great weekend everyone!

Joining Ginny and others today for Yarn Along – sharing our knitting and reading. I wanted to show you how those fleece-stuffed mittens (from Fox and Geese and Fences) are coming along.  It’s not the fastest knit, for sure, having to pause and add in all those bits of fleece, but the first mitten is ...
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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 at the end you can add a link to your recipes, too!  The ...
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Malting barley to brew our first batch of beer (no, this isn’t barley we grew – I knew you’d ask – but we do have some planted, so perhaps next year we’ll have homegrown homebrew!) Insulating, insulating, insulating. (Yes, that’s wool I’m stuffing into the crack, and we’re covering it with caulk.) Our little helper ...
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