by Sue Schlabach | Dec 9, 2015 | Artisanal Living, Chickens, Paris, Vermont
There are places where you expect to find a velvet Victorian sofa. A chicken yard isn’t generally the place. There are places you expect to see a chicken. AÂ Paris dress shop might not come to mind. In the back garden of a house on the edge of South Strafford,...
by Sue Schlabach | May 3, 2015 | Artisanal Living, Farm Life, Vermont
It’s been nearly a year since I’ve written. As the months yawned on since last June, I couldn’t think how to synthesize what I wanted to say. So the long and short of it, is that we are moving on from our little house on the hill. Not without some...
by Sue Schlabach | Mar 28, 2014 | Color, Creativity, Design, Interior Design, London, Vermont
I feel well familiar with whiteness right now. Our landscape remains monochrome, blanketed with snow. But I leave for London tomorrow where the grass is green and the air is mild. Mild never sounded so good. I’ve been remiss in writing about an afternoon I spent...
by Sue Schlabach | Feb 6, 2014 | Artists, Design, Natural World, Vermont, Winter
2014 is marching onward. Here I am in February watching the light change and finding myself cleaning the house with spring on my mind and snow whirling outside the windows. My daughter turned 12. We are on the verge or acquiring a horse that needs a home. Life is...
by Sue Schlabach | Nov 27, 2013 | Artisanal Living, Creativity, Farm Life, Garden, Holidays, Natural World, Vermont, Winter
Almost Thanksgiving and the grass is nearly obscured by snow. That’s okay with me after the mild, lingering autumn we’ve had. Our garden wall project that ate up our summer (and was partially the reason I rarely wrote), is nearly complete, and that is one...
by Sue Schlabach | Nov 7, 2013 | Autumn, Natural World, Vermont
Two autumn moments. Last week I drove the back way from Strafford, Vermont, through Tunbridge toward Royalton. Late afternoon sun on country roads. I made the last pot of fresh mint tea before heavy frost. These are a few recent images from my instagram...
