It takes me a day or two to settle in to the rhythm of the farm. To adjust to silence, except for the occasional…
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every…
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It’s Ralph’s birthday and what better way to spend it than snow blowing our half kilometer driveway at the farm. I’ve been making this cake/pudding…
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At the tender age of twelve, sitting alone in a dark movie theatre lost in Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘, I was…
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I survived Christmas day. There were moments of breathlessness or maybe just not wanting to breathe… Tradition crept in throughout the day,…
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The Christmas season has settled upon the Hooton household. It’s been quite a year! Highest moment was Theo proposing to Meggie at…
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For a Maritimer, seafood and Christmas go hand in hand. It’s not that we don’t eat fish and seafood the other eleven…
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Ralph and I never used the word ‘step’ in our family language. We were never step parents. Our children were never step…
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You’d be hard pressed to knock on any door in the Maritimes and not find a recipe for lobster chowder. It would…
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This is the perfect holiday pot luck dish. It takes seconds to assemble then gets popped in the oven so you can…