“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.” [...]
Archive for November, 2008
A family project: Pumpkin baking plus recipes!
Published by November 18th, 2008 in Cooking and Food and Family Ties. 10 CommentsI just pulled a batch of bran muffins out of the oven to go with breakfast, but here I am, sipping on hot ginger tea and nibbling on fresh pumpkin bread…mmm!
Yesterday we baked a huge pumpkin–one from a friend’s garden, and the filling we subsequently scraped out of it was enough for three pumpkin pies [...]
What to do with Ginger? Homemade Ginger Tea
Published by November 15th, 2008 in Cooking and Food, Health and Homemaking. 29 CommentsIf you’re like me, you’ve often wondered just what all you could do with ginger root. I had some leftover after making my Super Tonic, and there it sat on my kitchen counter until one fine–er, actually, brisk and chilly–day found me and my daughters at Farmer John’s place again. After spending a couple hours [...]
Some interesting reads for you…
Published by November 13th, 2008 in Health, Homemaking and Life. 11 CommentsI apologize for the lack of *me* around this neglected blog lately. Just for fun, here’s some good stuff:
Tyson Foods Injects Chickens with Antibiotics Before They Hatch to Claim “Raised without Antibiotics”–hm, is this premeditated deceit or what? Read up on why these antibiotics are so harmful to you…and if that’s not enough to make [...]
Making Super-tonic in the Great Outdoors
Published by November 3rd, 2008 in Cooking and Food, Family Ties, Health and Homemaking. 27 CommentsThat’s right, super-tonic. I’ll get around to explaining it in a second.
I knew the minute my hand left the back porch door knob this morning that *this* day was going to be a hum-dinger! I couldn’t make myself go inside after letting the chickens out…thankfully only my oldest daughter was awake, so I reveled in [...]
