Essential Pregnancy Herbs

On September 17 2009,  I welcomed my first baby into the world.  I was either incredibly lucky that my labor lasted only nine hours or incredibly unlucky that my labor began at midnight with back to back contractions that didn’t let up for nine hours straight:)  Either way, it was an incredible experience that began [...]

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Wine Making

I still get overwhelmed by the beauty and abundance of the place we live.  Berries and fruit grow and blanket  the countryside.  My garden produces without much assistance from me.  The rivers run through the highlands and valleys from glacial run off that I see as 40 cascading waterfalls that pour over the rocky surface [...]

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So Bad

I have been so bad about my blog.  Though my pregnancy has been quite easy I do have a bad case of placenta brain and can’t seem to pull together thoughts or form sentences very easily.  But I have been doing so many wonderful things with plants and homesteading.  I promise to write more on [...]

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Midday Beltane Dandelion Wine

Beltane came and went a week ago.  The weather was warm and I spent the day outside absorbing the sun and heat.  I layed on the grass and exposed my growing belly to the sun and watched the chickens and ducks peck at the ground, and happily gazed at my bewildered cats as they roamed [...]

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Two Garden Gates and Another Elk Recipe

The sun has come out and my shoulders and back are even a touch sunburned.  We spent the weekend outdoors building and mending and attempting to bring this land back from disrepair.  The weather has warmed significantly and so the garden is our first priority.  We have decided only to fence for rabbits and to [...]

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Springs Comes, Slowly

Outside it is raining, the rain falls gently as it does in the PNW.  We had many days of sun and small leaves are finally beginning to show themselves on some of the trees.  Easter was spent camping on the East side in a canyon outside Wenatchee.  I brought two dozen eggs from the hens [...]

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Feasting on Nettles, For Pregnancy and Beyond

While many of you  may have already had your fill of nettles this year, up here at my little magical end of the Stillaguamish river valley, the bounty has just begun.  There are little pockets of emerald rosettes emerging from all around the creeks edges and blanketing the ground beneath the fir forests.  They come [...]

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Fire Roasted Veggies, Literally

Oh what weather we have been having.  days of glorious sun, warmth, spring emerging.
To take advantage of the weather, Dylan and I decided to cook outside over the fire.  We sipped lemonade and I satisfied my pregnancy related need for steak.
One of my favorite things to do when cooking over a fire is to cook [...]

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Wandering Mahonia

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been – a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands [...]

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Edie was buried today

 
 
 

Edie RobisonEdie Robison, 86, died peacefully on February 18, 2009. Edie was an Air Force widow, a Navy Veteran, and active in several Veterans Groups in Austin including the VFW Auxiliary Post 3377, the DAV Post 219, and the American Legion Post 83. She was also active in Central Texas Carvers, the Texas Woodcarvers Association, [...]

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