Central Vermont in July is truely a beautiful place. The Vermont 100 course goes through hilly grassy horse country. Some of the barns are more beautiful than most homes. The hills and mountains make for amazing views. Even something as simple as a wooden fence can draw your eyes. Most beautiful is how green everything [...]
Dogs
Callie
This is Callie. She’s my in-laws’ dog. She’s a nearly 2 year old Gordon Setter. Callie likes chasing things. This is Cooper. He is my dog. He’s a 3 month old Standard Poodle. Cooper likes chasing things. Callie brings things back. Cooper brings things back. Callie chases. Callie brings stuff back to throw again. Cooper [...]
Dogs
Cooper's arrival (Part 1)
My poor puppy probably thinks that life in our home is a constant rat race. His first weekend living with us was constant excitement and dozens of people who wanted to pet, handle, kiss, hug and generally manhandle him. An overview of his first weekend (Part 1): Separated from family: Cooper seemed to be a [...]
Dogs
Cooper's arrival
We had have an incredibly eventful weekend. And my cats got outside this morning which made for a very entertaining morning (which Cooper and the cats all thought was great fun). But I’ll have plenty to blog about this week, even if I just stick to what happened this weekend… if life slows down enough [...]
Family
Painting of my wedding dress
IMGP8056, originally uploaded by mbarsalou. So I was in Quebec this weekend. I got to visit my father’s side of the family in a large family Easter reunion. My aunt gave me a very special belated wedding present, a painting she painted based on a picture from my wedding. I’m very excited to put this [...]
Local Food
Maple Syrup Open House
On Sunday I bribed my husband into going to the New Hampshire Maple Producers open house with me. We went to Folsom’s Sugar House in Chester. How did I bribe him? Maple Syrup Sundays… YUM. We listened to the owner talk a little about how he produces the maple syrup but the place was packed [...]
Garden
Seeds are here
It’s amazing to see physically how many seeds I ordered from Fedco. Especially considering how many of them are beans and peas. Spent part of Saturday planting the seeds for watermelon, eggplant, broccoli, brussel sprouts and tomatoes. I’m so excited to see how these heirloom plants do this summer. The stuff I’ve already planted has [...]
Recipes
Banana Bread
I made banana bread today from a modified version of the 18 serving version of this recipe on Allrecipes.com. If you have bananas that you are looking to mash and make banana bread out of I would recommend mashing your bananas and measuring how many cups of mashed banana you have. Then find a serving [...]
Food
Fall Vegetable Gratin
This is one of my new favorite dishes, I’m excited for the excesses in the garden this summer of eggplant, tomato, zucchini and summer squash because it will be delectable with cheese and portobello mushroom. Be sure to save this recipe if you are vegetarian or seasonally vegetarian like I sometime am. I was quite [...]
Chickens
Chicks
Quail Keets, originally uploaded by mbarsalou. Adam and I are planning to get chickens. A lot of it for me has to do with knowing exactly how the hens that produce my eggs have been treated. I could buy organic eggs, free range eggs etc at the grocery store, but there’s just something about the [...]
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