by Susan | Mar 9, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Domestic Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns
I don’t make a very good patient. I’ve been stuck home with bronchitis. In between naps, whining about being sick, and nagged about keeping my behind in bed, I worked on this little rooster. Inspired by our Bantam roosters, Pepper and Clover, you can play...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2012 | On the Farm
The March full moon is the Sugar Moon because it rises at the height of sugaring season. It’s reported that the sap flow increases during a full moon. I hope this is true because the weather simply has not cooperated with our sugaring efforts so far. I was so excited...
by Susan | Mar 5, 2012 | Hannah's Cutting Board, In the Kitchen
May your pancake smile upon you this morning. This is what you get when you let Hannah cook pancakes!
by Susan | Mar 4, 2012 | On My Mind
We have been planning our entry into the world of Maple Sugaring since we purchased a book on sugaring last fall at the Common Ground Fair. Intending to start small, we purchased a dozen stainless steel Maple taps, plastic tubing, and saved gallon milk jugs. This...
by Susan | Mar 4, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Owl and Raptor Patterns
This little barn owl is my favorite felt ornament yet. With individual feathers and buttons for eyes, I can imaging her perching on the barn rafters. If we had a barn. Click here to download the pattern. If you make this little owl, please comment with a link to a...
by Susan | Mar 2, 2012 | On My Mind
Me, in my PJs and fleece, walking Hannah to the meet the school bus this morning.
by Susan | Feb 28, 2012 | Out and About in Maine
by Susan | Feb 26, 2012 | In the Kitchen, Recipes
On Sunday, the wind was howling outside and all three of us were at various stages of “under the weather” with colds. It seemed like a good soup day. With potatoes beginning to sprout in the pantry and asparagus that had gone almost forgotten in the...
by Susan | Feb 26, 2012 | On My Mind
It’s February and we’re in Downeast Maine. And this crazy little Viola? Yesterday it was t-shirt weather. Today it’s bitter cold with winds howling through like a freight train. Yet signs of Spring are waging an impudent challenge to the calendar. In...
by Susan | Feb 25, 2012 | On the Farm
I’m an armchair birdwatcher. This winter, the only regular visitors to my birdfeeder have been Mourning Doves. I snapped these pictures this afternoon from the coziness of my kitchen. This is the real reason why I removed all the screens from the kitchen windows last...
by Susan | Feb 25, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Perching Bird Patterns
A Blue Jay that won’t raid my bird feeder and scare the dinky birds away. You can download this Blue Jay pattern here. If you make this little guy, comment herewith a link to a picture of yours!
by Susan | Feb 20, 2012 | On My Mind
Here’s a little camera experiment to compare my new cool SLR camera to my old cool camera. This is a buff in the box picture taken a week or so ago with my Kodak Z981 set on automatic. This is a buff in the box taken yesterday with the new Canon Revel 3Ti SLR...
by Susan | Feb 19, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Tree Clinging Bird Patterns
On our walk through the woods yesterday the only bird we came across was our resident woodpecker. He gets the honor of being featured in my felt ornament collection. You can download the pattern here. I’d love to see your ornament. If you make him, post a...
by Susan | Feb 18, 2012 | Granny Gadget, Odds and Ends
My cameras have always been point and shoot. Recently, I told Mom that my next camera would be a digital SLR. Shortly after that conversation I received an email from Amazon – a Canon Rebel EOS T3i had been shipped to me, courtesy of Granny (and Papa) Gadget....
by Susan | Feb 16, 2012 | Out and About in Maine
by Susan | Feb 15, 2012 | Ducks, On the Farm
I went out to check for eggs this afternoon. This was my first clue that the ducks were not tucked away safe and sound in their yard. I followed the tracks and found a duckie super highway. They had been very busy ducks. It didn’t take great tracking skills to...
by Susan | Feb 15, 2012 | On My Mind
These are cute little tracks leading right up to the edge of the house. I’m just hoping whoever it is hasn’t taken up residence!
by Susan | Feb 14, 2012 | In the Kitchen, Recipes
Snowy cold weekends are the perfect time for one of my new favorites – Split Pea Soup. I made this for the first time last year after many hints from Paul who loves Split Pea Soup. Me? I’d managed to avoid it for all of my years. I had no idea what I was...
by Susan | Feb 11, 2012 | Bird Patterns, Felt Patterns, Perching Bird Patterns
It’s going to be some time before Robins make an appearance here. Spring is a ways off – according to the calendar and to Mother Nature. A snowstorm has everything cancelled in our little corner of Maine today, so I whiled away the afternoon making this...
by Susan | Feb 11, 2012 | In the Kitchen, Recipes
This recipe has been on my mind for a while now since I’ve been looking for recipes that use eggs. A snowy Saturday seemed like a good time to finally make Challah, or braided egg bread. I studied a number of different recipes and worked up this version that...
