Views from the Farmstead

I have started and stopped many posts over the last few days…..lots going on in my mind and just taking a general reassessment of life. This winter was far colder and snowier than I can remember for my neck of the woods and that led to a lot of hunkering down and staying put. [...]

My mom informed me of this special that was on NBC Today – Secret Filth Exposed. There are several videos but this is the one that really caught my attention. They purchased underwear from several well-known stores (Victoria’s Secret, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Gap, etc.) and removed all of the tags and protective stuff, then [...]

Last week the kids went sledding several times at the neighbor’s house. I thought I had recorded them the day before but didn’t, so here they are having fun!

I love making Nick Malgieri’s honey wheat bread! It is yummy as sandwich bread but it is also so tasty in the morning with some b-u-t-t-e-r.

The recipe can be found in his How to Bake book and is as follows:

2 1/2 teaspoons (1 envelope) active dry yeast
2 cups warm tap water (about [...]

More snow is falling as I type…but I am so wishing for this instead

Our street still has not seen a plow but we have seen a growing sense of community. Hubby and two neighbors finished the main road last night and today will start on an adjacent road that is not County maintained just so our other neighbors can get out.

We are expecting more snow starting tomorrow [...]

Even though it seemed like the snow would never end, it did and the sun came out this morning and the skies are blue. Thank God that we were kept safe through the entire blizzard and the power stayed on…being on well water that is important being that with all the various equipment we [...]

We woke up to a winter wonderland here and it still continues to snow….

Hubby started out on the back deck trying to clear a path to the wood.

Here are some more pics of this record setting snow..

The snow has truly picked up to the point of of almost white out conditions just in the time [...]

It started snowing at about 11 a.m. and of course it started lightly but has definitely picked up and is now sticking. The National Weather Service has described this storm as pretty major for our area and may place in the top 10 in terms of historic snowfalls. Lots of references being made [...]

Yes, I am still around! Lots of blog posts in my head that I should really write out for future posting but never seem to get around to it. Life has been busily humming by and for that I can’t complain. As I type, we are preparing for our 3rd snow event [...]