The Radical Homemaker

Warning: Blending authenticity with joy may arouse contempt.

The Path of the Sun

The snow still lay thick on the ground outside the window one March morning a few weeks ago as Saoirse struggled over her math lesson. Customarily quick to pick up on each progressive step in the syllabus, on that particular morning, her brain had a mental block on decimals. The muscles on her face were […]

A Moment to Celebrate

And so Easter was spent at our various family dinners as tradition and desires dictated. But then our dear friends Cornelia and Greg opened up the old church hall in our hamlet, a fixer-upper that they bought out of love a few years back that they’ve been slowly restoring. They put one of our lambs […]

MacAuslands Woolen Mill

Today’s journey was deeper into the Maritimes, to MacAuslands’ Woolen Mill, a fifth generation family-run mill that has been processing our fleeces for over twenty years. We use MacAuslands for the blankets that we sell (you can see them in the farm store), as it is the only mill on the Eastern Seaboard that will […]

Wool Week

And now, in spite of the dreary weather, a week of woolery begins, starting with today’s shearing, followed by Bob’s and my mad dash to the mills before the lambs start coming and the farmers’ market opens.

Finally!

I will take any and every sign of spring I can find…

More Found Treasure

This was sitting in my office when I came in this morning, one of Saoirse’s latest creations. This figure is Hera (yup. We’re still into the Greeks). Made with Sculpey Modeling Clay. Sometimes, I guess it pays to go to bed early and let them stay up late.   Posted with Blogsy