Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Protected: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Posted in Holidays, Hoopla & Hullabaloo, Ruaridh Gallery on December 24, 2013|
Protected: Merry Christmas!
Posted in Holidays, Hoopla & Hullabaloo, Ruaridh Gallery on December 24, 2013|
Protected: Pumpkins: Halloween Part 2
Posted in Holidays on October 31, 2013|
O Holy Night
Posted in Holidays on December 24, 2012|
Time for a holiday blogging break. Time to bake some cookies and drink some Christmasy drinks. We’ll be back in the New Year, or maybe a bit before then, who can say?
So in the meantime, from our house to yours, and thinking of the Newtown families especially: may your Christmas be blessed with peace, and if the fates would have it, joy. But if your eyes are filled with tears this Christmas, and for many Christmases to come, may you be deeply comforted, and may joy, in time, find you again.
The Cornucopia
Posted in Current Affairs, Garden, Holidays, Yum on October 5, 2012|
As it’s Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend (turkey, hooray!), it seems appropriate to say thank you for the harvest – and we’re so grateful for the bumper crop. See for yourself –
Some peppers:
A freezer basket of ripe tomatoes:
A counter of green tomatoes:
A little basket of quince fruit – (I have a quince bush and didn’t even know that it produced fruit because it never has, and suddenly this year there were this little globes hanging on it. I found out you can make quince jelly, so maybe I’ll try that.)
A terrible photo of squash, which makes it look like they were having a secret gathering when somebody shone a spotlight on them and yelled, ‘WHERE WERE YOU ON THE NIGHT OF THE 23RD?!’
A bunch of bags of sliced zucchini in the freezer, along with about eight jars of plum jam made from the pail of plums that a neighbor down the street gave us fresh off his tree in the front yard.
And that’s it for this gardening season, for the vegetables at least. I’m hoping to plant garlic in the next couple of days, and maybe one year we’ll try kale. (Is this the year? Who knows.) It’s frosty in the mornings now, and feels like winter is on the way, which is a little crazy, because most of the leaves are still green and on the trees. Which means there’s a lot of raking to be done between now and then. And leaf-pile jumping.
Anyway, happy thanksgiving to all, and may your bounty make you satisfied –
Protected: By the Sea
Posted in Holidays, Ruaridh Gallery on September 18, 2012|
Protected: Language Lessons for Daddy
Posted in Holidays, Ruaridh Gallery on September 17, 2012|
Protected: Walking Auntie J
Posted in Holidays, Ruaridh Gallery on September 15, 2012|
Protected: In the Garden
Posted in Holidays, Ruaridh Gallery on September 14, 2012|
Protected: Little Dude, Part 2
Posted in Holidays, Hoopla & Hullabaloo, Ruaridh Gallery on September 12, 2012|
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