A few days ago my youngest granddaughter and I visited friends who keep goats. What fun! Bonny has several milking goats, one wether, and two kids. Above, two of the goats are watching a deer that’s in among the trees. She’d just bounded by but I missed the shot! Here are the two kids. They’re…
I love when I can write a story in the same season it’s set. I’m working hard on getting Berry on Top off to my beta readers, and the story timing is perfect for the weather we’ve been experiencing lately. While Liz enjoys her first Idaho winter after a decade in the Far East, I’ve…
Are you nuts about nuts? I don’t do a lot of baking these days, but when a recipe calls for nuts, I usually use walnuts. Why? Because we have so many of them! We have a large, mature tree in our side year that keeps us busy gathering nuts from the ground in late October…
Team Bride takes place in my fictional British Columbia town, Riverbend, in the fall. One of the things I associate with fall here is making apple juice, so I had to feature it in Team Bride. It’s hard to describe the process fully in the course of a story without bogging down the narrative, so…
What says “fall” more than a rural fall fair? You may argue for fallen leaves, bonfires, or canning that last hundred pounds of tomatoes, but a fall fair definitely ranks up there. So when I was writing Team Bride, the Riverbend novella set in autumn, it seemed the fall fair would be a natural setting…
Too busy to blog? You’d think so, being as I missed last Friday and didn’t even realize it until probably Sunday. Oops! But here is a list (partial, I’m sure) of what September is like on the farm. We’ve extracted honey! Although we sold most of our hives last year and this wasn’t a “good…