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Yesterday we went an sorted, packed and distributed our wholesale dried fruit and nut order, bringing home a good hundred pounds to our own ...

How beautiful is this? To think that it started out as this...

With a family of six, two chest freezers, a lot of pantry space and a penchant for whole foods, we end up buying a lot of things in bulk. An...

Our nine day experiment with structure was up yesterday. This morning we got up and did math, handwriting, biology, physics, chores, music t...

We had a family meeting a little over a week ago. It was a more significant meeting than usual, because Chuck was part of it: he wanted to e...

A few changes in progress around here lately, worth a few posts, but today is rushed -- more about those another time. Today, though, we cel...

We are YouTube and Google spinners, self-taught with the assistance of low-resolution videos and superior keyword choices. Sophie as usual i...

I bought my copier / printer / multifunction machine a couple of years ago. I loved that machine . As soon as I got it home I was questionin...

A friend of mine re-iterated her offer of the loan of a spinning wheel today. We're getting closer ...

"... we are currently on the fence about sending our child to public school in a very small rural town or homeschooling ... One of my b...

This is the story of our past week and a half. Lovely, isn't it? Three of the kids have been sick twice. Erin had the worst of it initia...

This is fun! We have a visiting clinician in the area this weekend running a set of workshops for music students, teaching them about baroq...

I was putting on about 100 miles a month through the summer and would have finished my 2009 goal of 500 miles by mid-September if I hadn...

Thanks to a borrowed drum carder, this phase is going reasonably efficiently. But it still takes ages. We've spent hours at it over the...

It's fall. Every fall for the past few years I am struck by the urge to get out yarn and needles and start creating things. The kids hav...

Two of my kids have caught the school bug. The last few mornings have looked like this. At 8:30 a.m., no less! Sophie likes to be a night-ow...

New running shoes, again. On the advice of my chiropractor, who is also a distance runner and seems to really know his stuff, I bought mysel...

There was some snow, but not much. Three or four inches, maybe. In an effort to preserve it from expected above-freezing temperatures of the...

The first colour, the first twenty per cent of our washed and carded fleece, hanging to dry above our heads at the apex of the living room c...

Noah and I have now made three trips to Calgary this fall. Erin has made four. It feels like it's working for us. Here's this week...