Category Archives: Duendesday

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} How is our little peach these days? She is counting her chickens, hunting for mushrooms, and driving the tractor-mower (again). She takes her mower-driving very seriously – she concentrates on all the steps and learns new tips. It really gave her a kick to tow theContinue reading “Duendesday is for Movers and Shakers”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} HI PEEPS, IT’S ME, DUENDE! A NEW TREAT FOR FALL IS HERE AND THEY’RE APPLE CHIPS. IF YOU DON’T TRY THEM THIS FALL THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT FALL. THEY DON’T GROW ON TREES! OH YEAH, YES THEY DO. THEY’RE YUMMY LITTLE HOMEMADEContinue reading “Duendesday from Duende”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} She’s a maker, a doer, a shaker, a dancer, a marvelous wood sprite with magickal powers to amuse and amaze! She’s been hard at work playing lately – making all manner of craziness and discovery. She’s been playing badminton and board games, drawing on her outdoorContinue reading “Duendesday Wednesday”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} The agenda of a free 10-yr-old is certainly something to admire and emulate. She wakes up when her body tells her (anywhere between 7 and 9), feeds the pets, and forages for food – sometimes something sensible like cereal or toast, sometimes something ridiculous if itContinue reading “Duendesday”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Cabot Cheese is having an online drawing contest (juried by the children on the farm) which all sounds like good fun – cows abound! The rules are pretty simple; cows, original artwork, kids 4-17. There are no prizes listed (I’m imagining it is for the funContinue reading “Duendesday is for the Cows”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Wow – that seemed like a fast week, was it fast for you, too? This Summer seems to be flying by. As usual, on a homestead – we are always behind, even when we think we are a bit ahead. There is always something more toContinue reading “Duendesday – already!”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Full moon, cosmic convergences, and chickens. That’s our life in a nutshell (what kind of nut? We have always decided our child is more of a hazelnut, we call her Philbert sometimes). We’ve started introducing our ‘cheens’, as Duende calls the chicken teenagers (aka pullets), toContinue reading “Duendesday”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} If you were to ask her what our little gal misses right now, she’d probably say ‘Pear’ and the beach (the former being her friend, and the second her Summer heart’s desire). We try and distract her with goings-on but there isn’t much to interest aContinue reading “Duendesday”

{a day to check in with a 10 yr old’s doings} Tuesday went by within the blink of an eye – we prepared some fresh foods (made pickles – with radish pods, set up kimchi, made some vegan pesto, roasted tomatoes for winter sauce, cut up and froze rhubarb, etc) and went to the Farmer’sContinue reading “Duendesday!”

{a day to check in with a 10 yr old’s doings} It’s officially official – She’s 10! WOWZA! Where did all that time go?! And why couldn’t each phase, each age, just been a little bit longer…she is marvelous and we love to watch her grow but it still has a bit of sadness withContinue reading “Duendesday: New Duende Order”