world’s best halloween decorations!

Posted on October 31, 2008 - Filed Under adventures, making things | Leave a Comment

Yesterday I showed you our neighbor’s Halloween creations from last year. Today we have the promised pics of THIS year’s spooky masterpieces…
First, the big picture.

Here are some of the floating ghost people. Poor suffering things.

And a little social commentary:

Can you see the giant spiders eating that person who is hanging out of the house window [...]

with neighbors like these….

Posted on October 30, 2008 - Filed Under adventures, making things | 1 Comment

Our neighbors down the street go crazy for Halloween. It’s fantastic. These pictures are from LAST year’s extravaganza. I’ll post some pics of this year’s, completely different, spooky display tomorrow.
Yes, this is all in their front yard!

These are from the ‘book club’. The yellow book is “How to be Less Dumber.”

This book is “When Your [...]

in which luc turns 3

Posted on October 28, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life | 1 Comment

This weekend, Luc turned 3. Woo hoo!

Halloween birthdays are so cool.
Luc was so excited about the party, asking who would be there, what we would do, if there would be cake. Of course, at the party itself, he was all shyness and small smiles. Here is what he did when we sang the birthday song:

Incredibly [...]

leaf girl strikes again

Posted on October 26, 2008 - Filed Under honeymilk farm, kiddo life | Leave a Comment

Aaaah! It’s Leaf Girl!

No, silly, Leaf Girl is actually quite friendly. And when she’s not out fighting leafy crime in her giant Sycamore Leaf mask, she gives tours of all the marvelous fall colors.
Like this:

But first, she wants to take you to the pond for one perfect maple leaf:

Isn’t that nice?
The pond is quite spectacular [...]

close up eyes…A-ha!

Posted on October 23, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | 2 Comments

“Take on Me” has got to be the quintessential 80s pop song. I just ran across this very…literal…interpretation of A-ha!’s wildly popular (at the time) (at least among my friends) (hey, I was twelve!) music video. Remember when music videos were all still new and amazing? If you do, you will probably [...]

best damned cornbread on the planet

Posted on October 19, 2008 - Filed Under food | Leave a Comment

A friend of mine recently joked with me that it was pretty hilarious that I have a ‘recipes’ section of my blog when I don’t cook.
And what’s that supposed to mean? I cook! I mean, I CAN cook. Hey, I’ve done my time in the food service industry! Line cook, stove cook, short order cook, [...]

the amazing emu

Posted on October 16, 2008 - Filed Under adventures, goats | 1 Comment

The other day we went to visit Christiana, a friend of ours who has a bunch Toggenburg goats. She also has chickens, geese, a turkey, some pigs, horses, and—surprise!—emus. What the heck is an emu?

Christiana makes the most wonderful goat’s milk soap. Although I have dabbled in making goat cheese and goat milk yogurt, I [...]

early autumn goat walk

Posted on October 15, 2008 - Filed Under adventures, goats, honeymilk farm | 1 Comment

(To see a goat walk from this spring, go here.)

chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

Posted on October 10, 2008 - Filed Under adventures, kiddo life | 3 Comments

Last weekend, we made our way to a near-by, semi-historical, Steam Train Ride! This was partially inspired by Luc’s current fascination with Thomas the Tank Engine and all things train-y, and partly because Paul has been wanting to go for years and now, finally, he can blame it on the kids. Fair enough. We piled [...]

homemade baileys

Posted on October 7, 2008 - Filed Under food | Leave a Comment

I’m a sucker for alcoholic drinks that are essentially chocolate milk for grown-ups. One time, this bartender in a fancy Italian restaurant made me a drink that was like eating an excellent chocolate truffle—damn, I wish I knew how he did that. Sigh. Anyway, in search of repeating that divine beverage, I found Baileys, which [...]