I live on a farm ... — dating

Tree Peonies of 2011

June 1, 2011 • art • blogging • country life • country living • culture • dating • faith • family • farm • farm life • flowers • food • free knitting patterns • friends • friendship • gardening • gifts • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • recipes • relationships • romance • shopping • spirituality • thoughts • travel • women

You may have wondered where I have been. After fighting off a flu back in April that lingered for several weeks, I took a bit of extra time off to recuperate and do some long needed planning regarding my blog, my website, the knitting patterns, my writing in general, my fine art paintings and photography ... to mention a few items on my mind. I have also had some on again, off again computer problems over the past two years that have been quite annoying at times and during my recuperation I had to deal with that. With a very...

The foods that bind us

February 17, 2011 • apples • blogging • cookie recipes • country life • country living • culture • dating • faith • family • farm • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • recipes • relationships • shopping • women • yarn

I made twenty dozen of these scrumptious cookies to send off to loved ones this Valentine's Day. A chocolate-based cookie, I used premium bittersweet cocoa powder, doubling the amount the recipe called for. In addition to a standard dose of semi-sweet mini chocolate chips, I added one bag of large Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate morsels so that each cookie would have one or two extra chunks of premium bittersweet chocolate. With other interesting ingredients like whiskey and coffee, these cookies seemed the perfect choice for a Valentine confection. Everyone who received them seemed to agree. I gave my husband his own...

The year of faith

January 25, 2011 • art • country life • country living • dating • dogs • faith • family • farm • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • romance • snow • spirituality • thoughts • travel • Valentine • women

Five years ago today I woke up not knowing this man or this place existed. Actually, that is not entirely true.

I Love New York

May 7, 2010 • art • blogging • country life • country living • culture • dating • family • farm • farm life • flowers • free knitting patterns • friends • gardening • knitting • Life • love • marriage • Mother's Day • photography • relationships • romance • socks • travel • Upstate New York • women • yarn

I have to say this-- though I never would have thought I would--I love New York.

Isn't that something ...

August 19, 2009 • agriculture • art • blogging • country life • country living • dating • dogs • faith • family • farm • farming • friends • gardening • health • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • pets • photography • Photos • pumpkin recipes • relationships • romance • spirituality • summer • thoughts • women

I remember so crisply the moment when I was sitting out back on the stoop the day after we arrived "home" following our cross-country honeymoon drive and watched as my new husband circled the barn on his tractor and saying in somewhat stupefied* wonder, "I live on a farm. I live on a farm, and my husband drives a tractor."