by Sue Schlabach | Aug 10, 2012 | Family, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania where summers were hot and muggy. When a thunderstorm rolled in I loved to sit on the porch swing watching sheets of rain pour down off the roof, with the lilacs 15 feet away becoming a mere shadow of themselves through...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 2, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Summer, Vermont
….I had a lot of things on my mind (as the song by The Band goes). This morning started at midnight when my alarm clock went off. Apparently we had a blip of a power outage last night and it set my alarm back to 12:00 a.m. I—mercifully—got back to sleep without...