This week, I’m grateful for many things – the excitement in the air at the bakery with all the students returning to town, delicious new jam and mustards from Patti on the shelf at Wheatberry, our new tradition at home of veggie pizza on Sundays (so good! and so easy), the chance to help a ...
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of school at home.  Ella’s been very, very interested in school lately.  Luckily, my inner fire was kindled a month or so ago by some of Carrie’s fabulous planning posts, so I had gotten a planner from A Little Garden Flower, and started putting our year together.  When I told her school would start yesterday, ...
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(our 2009 PVHG grain share)
Has it really been a whole week? Before we go further – we’re very grateful this week for this kind mention in The New York Times.
This week, I’d like to linger in some gratitude for books.  Those who know me probably know that I’m a big bibliophile.  A friend once told ...
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Grateful to have moved past my fears, and made this new open banner (at last!)
Grateful for this book that’s got me fired up about socks – here we go!
Grateful for the rains that came in the night.
Grateful for visitors, and the chance to visit others.
Grateful for finally making a sewing card, instead of just thinking ...
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Grateful to be back in the habit of gratitude.
(Seth working on the horse-drawn harrow)
So very, very grateful for the beautiful birth of our dear friends Seth & Bethany’s new baby boy, Case.  Welcome, Case!
And grateful, for this, which came like a gift.
The Turning
And now, I begin to turn home.
That simple,
that hard.
Wood stacked and ready,
knives sharpened,
fabric, ...
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It’s been a strange week (in a strange summer) here.  I must confess that I’ve got a serious case of the crankies.  So let’s talk about something else!
(new apron for the bakery, baby vest, child’s Waffle hat)
I often get asked “How do you find the time to do so many things?” (or a similar question).  ...
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Happy Lamas (Harvest Festival) everyone!

This weekend brought some serious harvest bounty from farms here in our blessed Valley.  Ella and I managed to drive an hour out to Benson Place in Heath to pick up our wild blueberries, and on the way we stopped at the Greenfield Farmer’s Market.  We got ripe peaches, the first ...
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Gratitude to be here, in this life, on this farm, with my favorite people.  Including this one:
Have a great weekend, everyone!

Love her summer cooking outfit – panties with an apron.
With a broken camera (oh that fateful final “click!”), family visiting, and no internet at home, the time is ripe for a blog summer break!  Only for a week or so, and then we’ll be back.  In the meantime, pop over to www.localgrain.org to see a ...
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Remember Nicola’s excellent group, A Step Towards Balance?  I’ve been very neglectful in my posts about it, but I have been using it in my life.  Questioning, does this thought or this action bring me closer to the life I want, or further away?  As Pema Chodron asks, Am I making peace, or ...
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