Lina on March 8th, 2010

The Post Office called at 6:15 this morning to tell us that our chicks had just come in.  Yay!  They are so cute and we are so excited.  All 27 survived the trip so far and they all appear to be eating, drinking and moving around quite well.  There’s one little one that I’m particularly [...]

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Lina on March 2nd, 2010

I’ve been writing a lot about food lately.  I have a post over at the Green Phone Booth today about CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and it made me realize just how much I’ve been focusing on food lately.  But its just so good, even when you’re not an expert at making it.  I’m lucky enough [...]

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Lina on February 11th, 2010

Boy howdy, did it snow here this last week.  We got 43 inches of snow in 6 days and most of those days were so windy that it was technically a blizzard and we couldn’t see more than 20 feet outside of the windows.  Thankfully, we didn’t lose power and didn’t really have anywhere else [...]

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Lina on February 5th, 2010

We’re supposed to get another epic storm today.  Amazing.  I’m just happy that today is a telework day for David and I went grocery shopping on Wednesday so we are pretty well set for the upcoming Snowpocalypse.  Or Snowmaggedon.  Or as the title suggests, my personal favorite – Kaiser Snowze.  Or that today is the [...]

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Lina on January 31st, 2010

We got the expected 2 inches of snow on Saturday, plus 6 more unexpected ones along with temperatures that hovered in the teens for most of the time.  It turned a “work-on-the-garden” weekend into a “cozy-hunker-down-inside” weekend and we made the most of it.
I made the “Sunday Dinner Hostess Apron” from Weekend Sewing.  Its made [...]

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