2021 Garden Report

2021 Garden Report

by | Oct 17, 2021 | Cooking, Homestead

I’m beginning to wonder if any year will be “normal” in the garden. 2021 proved to be another challenging growing season. In February and March, I started most of my veggies indoors from seeds. Five varieties of tomatoes, three tomatillos, six...
Quilt Life: COVID-19 Style

Quilt Life: COVID-19 Style

by | Apr 22, 2020 | Quilting

What a crazy couple of months it has been. My calendar was full of quilt classes to teach at quilt shops and guilds, and I was looking forward to participating in the Spokane area shop-hop in April (for you non-quilters, a shop-hop is when you and your buddies pile...
2019 Quilting and Sewing Recap

2019 Quilting and Sewing Recap

by | Jan 21, 2020 | Quilting

Everything that I quilted and sewed in 2019. The year started off busy as I got ready for a trip to California to teach at a quilt guild and a couple quilt shops. I had to create multiple class samples and write patterns. I designed a new quilt-as-you-go pattern called Hugs or Kisses.

2019 Farmstead Report

2019 Farmstead Report

by | Nov 24, 2019 | Homestead

We’re coming to the end of our first full calendar year in Idaho, so I thought I’d take a look back at what we accomplished.We got to experience all four seasons in all of their glory and put to use things we learned from our adventures in 2018. Timber...
Heading Home

Heading Home

by | Oct 14, 2019 | Travel

In case you were wondering, we did make it home to Idaho eventually, but it was not easy. After a week of extreme heat and humidity, we were anxious to get back to our farm and see what damage the snow had done to our garden. Not knowing what the weather would be...