{life with a curious and crazy almost 14 yr old} It’s officially official — she passed her 8th Grade Assessment and was recommended for Honors classes when she chooses her High School Classes…she’s officially also been accepted to the Maine Arts Academy!! Onward ho! She’s excited. And if she’s excited, we’re excited. Celebratory ice creamContinue reading “Duendesday: Movin’ on Up”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Tuesday Happenings: New Moves
We’ve got so many good things going on we can barely sit still. The Solstic energy is getting us revved up to have some fun. The homestead is ready to be re-imagined and enjoyed — gardens galore needing wattle fencing, grapes exploding and ready to be trellised, flower garlands and rock patterns dying to beContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: New Moves”
Friday in Pictures: Solstice & the Strawberry Moon
{let the images tell you a story}
Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Risotto
We have the most amazing mushroom growing/selling folk at our farmer’s market (Wild Fruitings); they sell gorgeous gourmet Oyster mushrooms of many colors, Lion’s Mane, Chestnuts, Pioppino, Enoki, Trumpets, Shiitakes and probably some I’m forgetting or don’t recognize. They grow the gourmet but they also forage and offer some dried and make medicines. They alsoContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Risotto”
Duendesday: Change In Action
{life with a curious and crazy almost 14 yr old} She dances, she runs, she sews, she reads, she crafts, she whines, she makes messes, she leaves dirty dishes everywhere…she’s 13. It’s all good, even when it’s crazy-making. Our Duende is a lovely person; she’s freaking funny as heck, creative and smart, confident and assertive,Continue reading “Duendesday: Change In Action”
In Pictures: Flower Power Friday
{let the images tell you a story}
Recipe Thursday: Roasted Lamb (Moroccan Mechoui) Over the Fire
Ok, this is really an inspiration from a mash-up of 2 Paula Wolfert’s recipes from her Mediterranean Claypot Cooking book. I have been a massive Wolfert fan for years and years (I’m sure I tell you this all the time) and have collected a few of her intense tomes. The Slow-Mediterranean Cookbook is really stunningContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Roasted Lamb (Moroccan Mechoui) Over the Fire”
The Happenings on Tuesday: Redeux
We’re getting to a place where we need to rethink our systems. Pretty much all of them: homesteading, parenting, the shop, our creative endeavors, our eating habits…what we thought was a goal is now either satisfied or will not come to be. I’m not one to think of success or failure as measures — theContinue reading “The Happenings on Tuesday: Redeux”
Duendesday: end of Spring fun
{life with a curious and crazy almost 14 yr old} Yes, the weather says it is Summer but if we named things by how the weather changes we would miss the planetary, solar, and lunar alignments and that is important, too. And we would be naming a lot more things (though, I do like randomlyContinue reading “Duendesday: end of Spring fun”
Tuesday Happenings: Planting
Working on getting the garden going some more (putting many beans and peppers and flowers in, tilling and putting corn in a new stretch, settling on a hops fence which also shapes a new garlic bed and will get us to remake the white grape fencing by Fall), potting my tomatoes this year (I willContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Planting”
Rock Bottom Homestead 