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We all tend to love snow the best from our cozy places inside looking out or when we can have time to have fun in it, but it is less on our list when we have to work/school/be out in it for things other than said fun. My sensibilities tend to lose it when itContinue reading “Snow Season”

I had a long conversation with a wonderful person in our community the other day about all the possibilities right now — in fact, I’ve had this conversation quite a lot lately with many. About what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to accomplish it, and the things we will have to changeContinue reading “Mid-Week (or rather, our weekend)”

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”

{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} The stretch has begun; Duende likes the arts school and wants to try it out so we will do our best to get her ready. Because she’s been free-schooled, we haven’t focused on the parameters generally prescribed in the time frame generally followed. Her paper mathContinue reading “Duendesday: Life in the Fast Lane”

{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} Since she was a wee one, Duende has always made her own mind about her toys. We foster imaginative toys and we don’t buy plastic so she creates her own little worlds. She didn’t care for dolls when she was smaller, except a couple of stuffyContinue reading “Duendesday: ‘doll-world’”

Look at these gorgeous bunches of Sunshine! Come get them, only $8.00 for full stem beauties.

As we return to the focus on the homestead of connecting with ourselves, the land, and our community, we realized that the recipes on this blog should not only be about the foods we eat and love here at Rock Bottom, but also as an offering to you. To those of you who graciously buyContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: A Rock Bottom Recipe Book in the making”

I can’t help it, I’m a sucker for the cliche; a turn in the weather sounds like stew time to me. Lovey hearty soups and stews – I’m dreaming about Luscious Butternut Squash soup (Recipe within a recipe: Saute 6 cups chopped leeks until soft in a deep pot, add pre-roasted peeled garlic cloves fromContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: RBH Tortilla Sopa”

{a day to check in with a 10 yr old’s doings} Our gal is a fish. Not only is she a water sign (Cancer) but absolutely loves water – bath, pool, lake, ocean, river, puddle, bucket – water. She swam the English Channel in a past life, or was a pearl diver, or is relatedContinue reading “Summer Duendesday”