What better way to celebrate the winter solstice, having survived the cold dark hours of the longest night of the year and to greet the return of increasingly longer days, than by baking a loaf of bread? And let me tell you what a joy it is to be able… Continue reading
I’ve got lots of news to report but I’m too busy so here’s a raven photo. I call this bird my barn raven, because she/he/it hangs out with my horses. My raven is usually alone even though there are plenty of other ravens that live in and above my valley…. Continue reading
Pesto. Is there anything as good, as rich, as satisfying? Pesto is the stuff of the gods, it is. And I can make it myself! Wait – I just did make it myself! My basil plant was starting to flower. I needed to nip those buds off, but just one… Continue reading
It is with a wee bit of sorrow that I bid my Fitbit One R.I.P. It has been a more or less faithful step tracking device for way too short a time (I don’t remember, but maybe a decade?). It was my second one, the first having died as well…. Continue reading