a day in the park

Yesterday Isaac and I had the entire day to ourselves. Fred was on a shamanic  course and so we were without him. This is rare as our weekends are always made up of all three of us and make up the core of of our family time…but yesterday it was just me and my boy and so I [...]

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the last beautiful day

Yesterday was an unbelievably beautiful day. 16′C and sunny. It was barefoot weather, for sure.  We absolutely took advantage of this gorgeousness to get outside for one last “summer like” hurrah! We started in the garden. We spent some time spreading out newspaper and covering with compost to choke out weeds and amend our heavy clay [...]

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our halloween

We weren’t sure Halloween was going to happen at our house this year. Isaac was feeling tired and thought maybe he’d just stay in and go to bed. WHAT? What five year old doesn’t want to go out for Halloween? My sweet boy. After talking it over for a bit we discovered that the reason [...]

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anticipation

Things are coming together… and the excitement is building over here. Happy Halloween, friends.

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the first frost

The temps have been all over the place here this past week, but it is decidedly feeling more like real autumn. After reaching 17 ‘C this past Sunday, today we had our first frost, waking to dead plants and temps of -2′C.  The sun was shining and mother nature was basking is her frosty blanket. [...]

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