Goodbye, 2010!  Thank you for such a challenging and beautiful year.  You gave me the will to rise early.  You brought ten thousand pounds of grains into our neighbors kitchens, and local bread onto the shelf at Wheatberry.  You brought a drought that walked us out to the Three Sisters Field each day carrying gallons ...
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Grateful to be less miserably sick (although definitely still recovering).
Grateful for my first food other than miso and chicken broth – I craved cabbage soup.

Grateful for family visiting, warm fires, and these brave little candles in the window.

Grateful that this vest is almost done!  (I took this photo for Yarn Along, but our power was ...
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I’m grateful for the new cat in our life, a sweet grey fluffy girl named Jasper.
I’m grateful for the arrival of a very dear old friend, who is here for Thanksgiving!
I’m grateful for our customers, and our community, which helps us do the work we love.
I’m grateful for successful homemade tortillas (recipe soon!) for dinner ...
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I’m grateful for the fall, which lays bare the bones of the land again, showing us her curves and beauty.  The mountains appear sometimes as we drive up and down these hills, the stones walls peek out from beneath the fallen leaves.

Grateful for these healthy lambs, which are getting so big!  Someone else is getting ...
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Some days, I do not get to start my morning on my mat.
Some days we seem to wake up attached to our difficulties.
Some days feel like walking up a steep hill, sliding on thousands of tiny pebbles.
Some days, thousands of pounds of grain appear and get loaded into your horse stall, ready to be distributed ...
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This past week, when Ella wasn’t deep in some sort of developmental craziness, we talked about sheep and wool.  We made some felted rocks for our nephews’ first birthdays, and we did this sheep, which I’m totally in love with.  I just drew an outline on paper, gave her some fleece and glue, and she ...
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*What wonderful comments from all of you, dear readers, on yesterday’s posts.  Replies are on the way – I would be delighted to make some chicken stock together, and some bread.  Let’s talk about nourishing your family (and yourself!) without driving yourself nuts.  Let’s walk this path together.*
The best antidote to feeling frightened at the ...
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Sometimes, after making hundreds of tomato sandwiches and salads, and putting up dozens of quarts of tomatoes for the winter, you come home to kitchen counters filled with this.
And this.
Over 100 pounds of tomatoes, some to be used right away (there’s Roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup at Wheatberry, folks!), the rest to be sorted into flats, ...
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Last spring, we started building the wall . . .

Today, we erected the frame while Cole looked on in amusement and nervousness,

and finished putting the roof on just minutes before the rains came pouring down onto the new dried bean harvest.  Hooray!

So much gratitude for all the crew who helped, the incredible Seth who surprised ...
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Head on over to localgrain.org to see what we’re grateful for this week – the beginning of the bean harvest!