Homemade Vanilla Extract

Homemade Vanilla Extract

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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A Farewell To Christmas

A Farewell To Christmas

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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Cinnamon Rolls Christmas Brunch

Cinnamon Rolls Christmas Brunch

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 Little Berlin

Christmas In Little Berlin

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 from Savo

Finnish Ham from Savo

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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Declaring Christmas Peace

Declaring Christmas Peace

Finland, where my husband is from, has an unbroken tradition that goes back centuries. Every Christmas Eve, peace is declared. Until then the festivities don’t really happen. First all gather by the tv to watch this all important...

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Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

Wildflower Farm In The Snow A few days back we got had a “wicked stawm” or for those who don’t speak Boston, “a wicked storm.” Now for people unfamiliar with the term “wicked” it means very, or lots of...

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