They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Too many cookies. Making Christmas cookies is a multi-week whole family effort that generally takes up most of advent every year. Christmas cookies are important. The goal is to have enough Christmas cookies to last until Lent, with plenty to give away in the meantime, so with Lent coming a bit late in 2025, we… Continue reading Why we haven’t been posting
The last time we made pumpkin cookies, everyone complained that they were too sweet! So this time we left out half the sugar. And none of the kids liked them because they were not sweet enough. And they did not taste much like cookies, more like biscuits. So Daddy ate all the rest. Alas!
Hey y'all! It's getting towards the end of Advent. Or rather, it is getting toward the middle of the third week of Advent. Unfortunately, due to the vagaries of the calendar, we don't get a fourth week of Advent this year. We basically get 24 hours, from sundown next Saturday until sundown on Sunday. This,… Continue reading Christmas Cookie Extravaganza
Last week we went "Shopping" in the shop, and Seppi picked out a nice, Seppi-sized pumpkin, because he wanted to make Pumpkin Muffins. Monday morning, bright and early, he brought his pumpkin upstairs from the garage, to make pumpkin something. Right now. He seemed oblivious to the fact that one does not simply cut the… Continue reading I want pumpkin something… Now!
Little Farm in the Big City 