So…. about that Christmas post I was going to do… hmmm… a little behind, but better late than never! Christmas has come and gone and we are well into the new year. We had a very busy break with Bruce’s family here for the first ten days. One of the highlights was that we took [...]
Here are a couple of other poems I wrote in the poetry group I joined. On a roll here!
Victory
I have made it to the top
I know you didn’t think I could
but I always knew
with open arms I waited for this moment
and now with a tickle
of cloud-licked wind
I have arrived
to put it all behind me would
be [...]
Well, Christmas just can’t be the same for adults as it is for kids. I’m finally going to accept it. Kids don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen rolling out pie dough and checking the prime rib. They don’t have to worry about cleaning the special wine glasses and being careful not to break [...]
So, trying to eat local foods is harder than it seems. Bananas, oranges, and most other fruits just don’t grow here. We’ve had to make sacrifices in our diet that limit the variety of foods we eat. The only meat we’ve been able to find that’s truly local (and pasture-raised) is either bison or costs [...]
