Gazette

Sunday, is Dr. Farmer Moomin’s favorite day. Here at the homestead, we do something very special most sundays. We make a big hot breakfast. Most of the time I eat…

The grey seems to permeate everywhere lately… From the barn yard and the sky to the stock market and consumer confidence. Yesterday it snowed. Which was weird given how devoid…

These I know are not the best photos, but baby chicks move around a lot. They also are very fearful of humans till they learn not to be. So photographing…

Inside these unmarked bottles, is homemade shampoo and conditioner, that I created from materials that function as a base and from mainly kitchen staples and some essential oils. Why I…

William Wallace, busted free of it’s egg at about 6 pm this evening, eastern time. He arrived a day or so earlier than expected. While he has achieved freedom from…

The Night Club, is warm and bright. The blue sky is a shining cerulean jewel,  it’s luscious brightness spills over everything. It fills every fiber of my being. I feel…

The sky is a beautiful shade of blue today. Held up on the skeletal arms of our woods. The ground is still barren, as if winter were still hanging on.…

I suppose I should start this post with five important things you should know. 1. It is extremely hard to both use your hands to model mittens while simultaneously photographing…

The future of our lives and of our world is what we plant right now. Starting a garden is always an act of hope, and of defiance. Hope of a…

It was not warm today. It was warmer than it has been of late. It was wet, the fog, the pride of New England, rising off the gradually fading snow…

Generally I try to stay less focused on politics here on this blog. I do that for many reasons. One being I want it to be a place where all…

I suspect, the most important thing I do on my homestead is to plan. Not so much the blue print of the farm, as in where to put what on…

Today, I was asked when I posted photos of my breakfast muffins if I shipped to the UK. The answer is unfortunately no. I am a homesteader. I cook mainly…

People often assume… That living out where there be dragons on the map, means life is highly uneventful. They ask what do I do with myself all day? Or, do…

The air has had a nasty bitter bite and the wind has lashed all day long, making the sharp, hibernal air feel like a blade scratching the skin. It was…