Drilling the stumps When I moved into my new house, there was an intimidatingly large " sticker bush " on the second lot again...

Butter, flour and parchment! Tomorrow is my daughter's second birthday without her father. It also happens to be her 16th birthday. ...

Garbage. I'm going to be talking about this a lot, so bear with me. When I was living in Seattle we could seemingly recycle and compost ...

Original carpeting When I bought my new house in Roslyn, all three bedrooms had carpeting in them. The two downstairs rooms had older ca...

Pic courtesy of 2CookinMamas I have two huge apple trees on my new property here in Roslyn, WA. One that bears sweet, eating apples and ...

My cars are old. Decrepit even, by today's standards. I'm still driving around in my 2002 Honda CRV that has just a hair under 70,00...

Centennial and Nugget hops My partner, Daniel, was looking for plants that grow quickly to cover the side of his house in the mountains...

Honeycrisp apples I've lived in my current house for about 13 years now and, over the years, I have planted numerous fruiting trees ...

Looks like an apple! My new partner, Daniel, owns a property in the Cle Elum area of Kittitas County in Washington (I mentioned the area...

I was seriously considering starting a totally new blog titled "Young Widow Farmer" or some such thing rather than continuing in t...

Always with phone in hand. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization released their recommendations for screen time for children unde...

Log Cabin - Cle Elum, WA Back when I was blogging regularly, one thing I always dreamed about was moving to a more rural area on several...

Getting Crunchy, 2019. I can't believe I started this blog a little over 12 years ago. A lot has occurred since then. Most notably,...

Last weekend, there was an opinion piece in the NY Times regarding how additives in processed foods negatively affect your gut microbiome, ...

Light ash fall - just the beginning! With all the fires in Western Washington (and in other parts of the country where it's far wors...

Rear Window Today is the first day back to school for my two homeschoolers! My daughter is starting 8th grade this year and has been t...

Moerman Folding Rack As you may remember, I've tried a number of different contraptions over the years to facilitate drying our clot...

Hollywood Plums I think the last time I posted about my backyard mini orchard was back in 2011. So, it's about time that I update y...