Homemade vanilla extract It is a lovely day here at Wildflower, the weather is nice not too cold, we have wispy clouds, and sunshine, and it feels like early spring. Inside, I am wasting time and doing just the usual up keep. I have a roast...
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Christmas Tree Ornaments. It’s perhaps my least favorite day of the year. Outside I smell rain slicked ice and the damp NE cold. Inside I smell a that nice wood stove cozy smell. It is that sad day of the year, when Christmas, gets boxed...
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A great picture of the newest goat Stella. It’s been one of those days….. My dogs climbing me all day like some sort of woman shaped jungle gym. They step in every tender place and cause pain as they climb and torment me. We refer...
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Cinnamon Rolls Christmas Brunch. Today, I am the matriarch of the house…. But as a child, it was my mum who filled the roll I fill now. Every Christmas morning after presents, we would head for the kitchen and there would be a beautiful...
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Christmas In Berlin We settled in a small farming town about a year after moving back to the US. First we lived in an apartment in Arlington, but this was the life we wanted. So when Dr. Farmer Moomin, got a job, we moved…. We left the big...
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Finnish Ham My husband and I have very different Christmas traditions because we come from opposite sides of the great Atlantic Pond. As should be wicked clear by now, I am from New England…. My husband, is from loosely five hours into the...
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Wildflower Farmhouse lit up for the holiday! In here, the glow of the wood stove causes a warm almost gooey, cozy feeling. The lights are low and though the night is young, the darkness outside is already deep. Outside, the smell of cold is...
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Tubs Of Soap The snow is falling, though not deep on the ground today. Outside, not only can smell the snow, but cold too has it’s own fragrance. It’s freezing cold out. But I wouldn’t want it any other way… In fact, the...
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Handmade by yours truly. Homesteading housewives tend to wear many hats. I am not unusual in this way. We tend to be a rather creative group with traditional leanings on some levels, while by the nature of what we do, are way ahead of our time...
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Wildflower Farm House Dressed For Christmas. Some things people may not know, if you ever want an accurate weather report, turn off the TV and look for sea gulls, if I see them around here we are doomed. If I see them at my dad’s we should...
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Christmas Trees at Indian Head Farm I am so glad to have a new and functional blog. I have missed this…. This is why this post too is a bit behind schedule. Good news, we are almost caught up...
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The path to my morning puppy play date At around 9:30 – 10 am, I head out plodding through the silence of the fresh fallen snow…. I head across my uhhh “field,” then I cross the small bit of woods that stands as a property...
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