I know, I know, cotton yarn, and a non-garment item! It’s not my usual knitting style! But it’s actually becoming my favorite kitchen towel. I love the soft cotton and the chunky knitted texture. The garter stitch border keeps the edges from curling, and there is an option to knit on the loop for hanging…
SAUCE TOMATE
SAUCE TOMATE (direct translation) Wash six large tomatoes, cut them in pieces, put them into a pot with a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, a head of garlic, and an onion cut into rounds. Cook over a low fire, without water. Watch over the pot, and stir the tomatoes minute by minute,…
Public Nuisance
David, our buck, has been such a nuisance lately. He’s waited for months until his girls were no longer pregnant, and now he is in rut again, although no one will be in heat until the fall, and they run away from him (you can’t blame them). He’s started to pee on himself and…
Pumpkin Harvest
The pumpkins are coming out of the garden now. There are Seminoles from seeds I saved last year, a few Galeux D’eysines, some delicata (didn’t make the pictures), North Georgia Candy Roasters, Jarrahdales and Marina di Choggias. There are also a pile of Zucchino Rampicante from one vine that seeded itself and has taken…
Sick Days and Baking
Note: The two cake pictures were from the “Dad Bake-A-Thon”, and you can’t really expect anything to be put away or the table to look clean. We have been so, so sick. The kind of sick that strikes you down and crushes you so you can’t move. Clothilde spent four days lying in bed,…
Yarn Along: Cotton Waffle Stitch Towel
I have finally again picked up some knitting. I haven’t had a knitting project on the needles since the spring. I had a sudden inspiration a few weeks ago to try knitting lace. I’ve knitted lace patterns into things, but never lace to be sewn onto something else. I have two yards of beautiful yarn-dyed…
GATEAU AU FROMAGE: Cheese Pie
There are so many eggs this time of the year, that any egg recipe is most welcome. I have my own version of cheese pie, or quiche – which usually includes whatever vegetables is particularly abundant at the time, and lots of home made goat cheese. Sometimes it has a crust and some times not…
Three Sets Of Twins
June Bug’s twins – Oberon and Cobweb Mustardseed curled up under my hat! Firefly’s twins – Puck and Peaseblossom On Sunday we came out and found that Cricket also had kidded. We weren’t sure exactly when she was due, because we saw her bred twice, so it was a surprise….and also another…
Puddles Of Goats
There are now five baby goats! That means baby goats sleeping together and playing together in puddles all over the place. Twilight Sparkle and June Bug had their babies, and June Bug had twins again. Sparky’s baby is huge….I had thought she might have twins, but it was just one…
Beyond Words
The summer rains have begun, the regular drenching each evening that turns the pastures into emerald green swards of luscious grass. It’s been so many months since I have really been rained on, I had almost forgotten the warm-but-wet-to-the skin feeling. I was stuck in a good, drenching rain over the weekend, one of those…
The Patisserie
We have had the best summer crafty project going lately – in the summer I always like to have something fun to work on that we didn’t get time for during the rest of the year. Summer here is like the deep winter of other climes. The weather and bugs make you want to lethargically…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 