Sometimes you forget that simple can be the best.
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Another Time Vortex
We’re in a jam. Another jar of homemade blackberry jam dropped into the present out of a time vortex. This one is from 1993. It’s a full quart – a massive quantity – and is even better than the last jar that dropped in from 1995. We’re clearly doing something right and only wish we could do it again on purpose.
A 22-year-old jar of jam showed up, just as delicious as the day it was made.
Shit on a Cloud
Rose was cleaning out the recipe card box, which was packed with too many cards that we no longer use, when she ran across one of our old favorites that we hadn’t had in a long time.
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Hauling Logs in From the Boombah
When we chose to use wood heat on a daily basis to augment our fuel-oil boiler in 2005 (see our heating bio here), we committed to a huge boost in the amount of wood we needed each year. Being frugal and healthy, we chose to go hunt that wood down in the wild and wrassle it home on our own rather than buy it.
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A Wood Shed
Back when energy was a lot more expensive than it is today (and who knows how long that will last), we opted to use our wood stove for heat every day instead of just occasionally. This strategy requires a lot of work, more so for our being at such a high latitude. With long winters and short summers, there is only a short time to dry wood and a long time during which you need it.
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