the good life: cookies and a warm studio

6 January 2010

Dinner tonight was, well, hardly.  We ate a lot of cookies first. Then Renee did do a bang up job on some devilled eggs (twenty-four to be precise).  And we had all eaten some of  Alex’s  cabbage potato stew earlier, for a perfect late-afternoon-early-dinner.   So there was plenty to eat, but we didn’t all [...]

Screw the cold, I’ve got tincture

5 January 2010

The free-range chickens are no more.  We lost three in as many days, and first blamed it on Alex’s new puppy, but since she muzzled him and the chickens were still showing up dead, their mortality is no doubt from the cold.   So we rounded them up today and closed up the coop.  They are [...]