by Sue Schlabach | May 3, 2019 | Ireland, Spring
So much of adulthood is about responsibility and making good impressions. Setting an example. It’s been dreary and rainy day upon day, week upon week. When the sun shines it’s when I’ve needed to keep butt in seat, face to a screen. By this morning I...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 14, 2013 | Ireland, Natural World, Spring, Travel
Coming home from Ireland my suitcase was weighed down with bags of rocks and glass. Not Waterford crystal—mind you—but far more precious glass to me: the seaglass we picked up on numerous walks along a little pebble beach called Garretstown, a few miles from our...
by Sue Schlabach | May 28, 2013 | Chickens, Design, Eating and Cooking, Farm Life, Garden, Ireland, Local Food, Travel
Have you ever visited a place you’ve only seen in books, but gazed upon so often that you felt you knew it? It’s like stepping through the looking glass, and removing the glasses you are wearing that have blinders on the sides. A month ago we followed the...
by Sue Schlabach | May 17, 2013 | Ireland, Travel
We were sitting in the Lemon Leaf Cafe in Kinsale, Ireland when my husband told my daughter this little bit of wisdom. {paraphrasing…} “They say you get enjoyment from a trip three times. First the anticipation of the journey while you plan. Then the...
by Sue Schlabach | Apr 17, 2013 | Farm Life, Ireland, Travel, Vermont
I’ve been traveling for work over the last two weeks, and am reeling from the sad news in Boston. Boston is a three hour drive from here and I’ve been there twice in the last two weeks to fly out of Logan airport. Boston is in our New England neighborhood....
by Sue Schlabach | Mar 17, 2013 | Ireland, Natural World, Spring, Travel
Another St. Patrick’s Day is upon us, with chill winter in the air, and hearty Irish fare cooking in the kitchen. A perfect day for that, though I wish our days would be ripening toward spring flowers instead of brewing up a big winter storm for tomorrow. Alas....
