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...
by Sue Schlabach | Jul 4, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Color, Eating and Cooking, Garden, Local Food, Summer, Vermont
You’d think it was Labor Day and not the Fourth of July for all the work we did today. I suppose a sunny day off makes us put on our small farm hats and deal with the tasks at hand. Today that meant working on the electric fence to keep one lamb—who is intent on...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 20, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
In six months the sun will be setting at 4 pm and I’ll be longing for this day. The first day of summer dawned with the promise of intense heat. There was barely dew on the grass when we went out to eat breakfast in the garden. The lambs got busy grazing,...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 5, 2012 | Family, Friendship, Garden, Summer
I’ve been on the road. And up to my eyeballs in work and life. It’s a fine savory stew, my life, with many ingredients I wouldn’t wish to remove. If only there were more hours in the day to do all the things I long to do. This weekend we witnessed a...
by Sue Schlabach | May 13, 2012 | Chickens, Color, Eating and Cooking, Family, Garden, Natural World, Photography, Spring, Vermont
I don’t ask for much on Mother’s Day. I often share it with my husband’s birthday, and so I’ve spent the day at a few ballparks over the years, and that’s okay with me. But this morning Mother’s Day dawned with a bit of overcast...
by Sue Schlabach | Mar 31, 2012 | Barcelona, Color, Creativity, Design, Eating and Cooking, Garden, Handmade, Interior Design, Paris, Recipes, Travel
Thanks to Britta at MyBlackBookParis for reminding me about Sweet Paul, the beautiful on-line magazine and brainchild of food stylist Paul Lowe. The combination of blue and white seems to be popping up in a lot of places this spring and I particularly liked these...
