Rachael M Rollson

What’s the Hap?

Happenings at Rock Bottom Homestead these days is probably much like yours – trying to wrap our brains around what’s going on and what we can do to help. What are we thinking/planning/on about? Setting up bulk meet deliveries near you – I hear there’s a surge in baking these days but we’ve got youContinue reading “What’s the Hap?”

Monday Musings

I’m struggling with inspirational thinkings today – it doesn’t help that the weather here at Rock Bottom is very uninspiring – some sort of snow/rain/sleet is dropping in straight sheets from the sky and bouncing off the front steps. The sky the kind of grey that isn’t going to let up any time soon. ThereContinue reading “Monday Musings”

Friday in Pictures: Boiling Sweetness

let the images tell you their story

Recipe Thursday: Creamy Beans & Barley en Brodo with Roasted Cauliflower

You just read that title twice, didn’t you, because it instantly sounds soooooo good. If you are on lockdown and need some magickal, relatively healthy, homey food – don’t fret. If you are out and about in the countryside (where here it is still pretty chilly), this will warm you up. If you are justContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Creamy Beans & Barley en Brodo with Roasted Cauliflower”

D-Art

{a day to check in with a 9 yr old’s doings} One might want to discount art from a 9-yr old as ‘child art’ or even just important to the parent’s but I think it is fascinating to see development in work that is learning without teaching. Not to say that learning some skills wouldContinue reading “D-Art”

Happenings

Though the world is a little crazy – some have more time than they know what to do with and some have less, as they juggle (and worry) more. Yes, it’s true, our upheaval has been a little less but we’re no less worried (sometimes more from the panic and the increase in gun sales)Continue reading “Happenings”

Monday’s Muse

JASMINE by Jane Hirshfield Almost the twenty-first century” — how quickly the thought will grow dated, even quaint. Our hopes, our future, will pass like the hopes and futures of others. And all our anxieties and terrors, nights of sleeplessness, griefs, will appear then as they truly are — Stumbling, delirious bees in the teaContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

Friday in Pictures: Vernal Search

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Recipe Thursday: Moroccan Lamb Tagine with Dried Plums and Almonds

Happy Spring! It’s not a sunny new Spring day here but it is Spring! Tonite will mark the even but ascendant time of the sun and sky – renewal, birth, cycles of new growth. And like all new babies, the earth needs tending to – nourishment, immune strengthening, and extra care. We’ve been ignoring theContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Moroccan Lamb Tagine with Dried Plums and Almonds”

Duendesday

{a day to check in with a 9 yr old’s doings} I read somewhere the other day that ‘we need to come up with activities to keep the kids busy right now while they are not in school’ – hmmmm, I have my doubts about this kind of system that doesn’t allow or foster childrenContinue reading “Duendesday”