Short Thanksgiving/harvest roundup

Too many delicious meals in my blogs today to round up, but I will write ours up soon.

Novella Carpenter’s non-published op ed on Thanksgiving. Novella is smart and awesome and bad-ass. Thank you, turkeys.

Via Kimberly, a fantastic poem:

Grace Rafael Jesús González

Thanks & blessing be to the Sun & the [...]

Happy Solstice!

I couldn’t wait for the last holiday, but this one snuck up on me and I didn’t even prepare a holiday meal. All the same, we ate well, with ribeye steaks (we are using up the last of our cow from last year, in preparation for the new cow in a couple of weeks), [...]

Winter is dead! Long live Spring!

In honor of yesterday’s equinox, I hurried home from work and Garth and I cooked dinner together, with a bit of prep done by him while I was still at work.

I had previously purchased some lamb chops from Skagit River Ranch with a spring celebration meal in mind, so Garth thawed them and [...]

Happy solstice!

So let the sun rise, bring hope where it once was forgotten

Just before noon, the snow started again, and I lit several candles on the hearth and Garth put another log on the fire. We made some bloody marys with homegrown and -canned dilly beans (just you wait, we’ll learn to make vodka [...]

Only two more weeks until days start getting longer again

… I can’t wait.

Anyone have any good solstice plans?