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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First, a quick look back at March’s small change – handwashing our laundry.  I’m still doing it!  It’s turned out to not be much more work, our clothes are way cleaner, and I don’t have to listen to the hideous machine chugging.  Woo hoo!  A quick lesson that hand washing taught me, which can be ...
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It so often seems, by the end of the week, that the day when I feel the least gratitude is the day I need to remember it the most.  Tonight (Thursday late) Ella was up late, and once I finally accepted that we were going to be up for a while, it went fine.  If ...
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This weekend started out looking( and feeling) like this – my wheelbarrow, carefully filled with manure, abandoned mid-project, then knocked over before I could get back to finish.  Argh.

We had a visit from a dear family member this weekend, but unfortunately everything felt out of whack this week.  Ella was cranky, I was cranky, and ...
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