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Occupy your kitchen.
Well, once again I had a great idea for a slogan and I decided to not do anything about it and someone beat me to the chase. Right now there are huge May first Occupy rallies planned across the...
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A day with my girls
Ben recently went on a buisness trip to Chicago. Normally we call in favors for the ride to the airport but this time I wanted to drop him off and take the metro in with the girls to the city for the...
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We are all arrived safe on the other side of the Atlantic! Gravagna is full of peace and beauty both in its people and buildings. I am hoping to post some of my favorite spots here. It is still cold...
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Article 11
Well so much for quiet beginnings. We had an earthquake last night. I felt the house shake. Seeing as it is made of solid rock with walls a foot and a half thick, this was mildly unsettling. It was...
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I have been trying to get ahold of a computer and a fast internet key for a while now so I am finally going to commence my series of posts about where we are and what we do here in Gravagna and also...
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Gravagna
I know, I know . Promises, empty promises. I have been too buy living the "vita della campagna" I suppose. Well back to Gravagna. My little village lies up in a cluster of Apenine mountains near a...
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Hike to La Cisa
Oh here is a random picture of the walk I take to the botega in Gravagna. The house to the left is the house my father was born in. It is sadly no longer habitable. The house to the right belongs to...
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Market Day. . . Wednesday I wake up really early and catch the 7 o'clock bus down the mountain to do my shopping. How does one feed a family of six with no car and hauling one's groceries? The answer...
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Here are some pics from our most recent outing. We took the train about an hour to the town of Monterosso, one of the five villages known as Cinqueterre. I love the ocean or as Zita calls it, the...
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Finally . . .
We are back in the states now, land of fast internet and bad cheese. I had many things that I wanted to post overseas but for want of a fast connection made the blogging quite a challenge. We had a...
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Got back into my bread baking groove this week. It felt good and since I always scale back on bread baking in the hot summer months anyway my baking hiatus was really only slightly longer this year....
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On travel and change. . .
It's been a few weeks now since our return to the States and I hit the ground running hard to catch up with all the bits and pieces before diving into the fall activities.Leaving your home for four...
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PHOTO RECAP!!!!!!!!!!
Hatke autumn in pictures. . . Celebrating Bilbo Baggins birthday with second breakfast. Michaelmas dragon bread. . . A fall walk, photo courtesy of Zita. . . Fall is...
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Novemberings
School (unschool) days pass in a flurry here at home. We have been doing a good deal of math games and playing with our new abacus which I really love. I always hated math as a child but if you had...
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New Year
New chairs. . . New blanket forts. . . New haircut . . . New IPad. . . I hope this blog app thing works. Here goes. Take that 2013!
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The pause in the day. . .
This the view out my kitchen window. While it is one of the best windows in our house it is unfortunately blocked by counter space and a filled in chimney so it is not easy to sit by and enjoy. However...
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cats in Bethlehem
I took down our tree on Sunday. Angelica as always mourned its passing. This year we were gone for part of Christmas visiting relatives and when we returned the girls still really wanted a tree. There...
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Nothing happier. . .
. . . Then toddlers with bread dough. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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Off to Texas
Mr Popularity is off to Texas and my only consolation is that my Mom and Dad are coming to stay with us in his absence. Here he is enjoying his last morning coffee with Angelica giving a running...
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Happy Candlemas!
Here is a photo of our neighbor bottle feeding two baby lambs in a Santa hat no less. Today marks the last day in the old calendar Christmas season so technically it is still the season to be jolly. ....
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Just a big love letter to my sourdough starter!
There is a lot of press these days on why bread and wheat are so bad for you and in particular we are seeing a huge rise in gluten intolerance and grain allergies. When I witnessed this, even with one...
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Good Friday Sourdough tutorial
Wrote lots of this post on Good Friday and am finally finishing it now! So I always bake on Fridays. So much Catholic theology is wrapped up in bread. It is always a great mystery to me how you get...
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Homeschooling sex Ed
Supplies: 16 toads, eight kids, one afternoon in spring. Lecturing: noneResults: a necklace of toad eggs in a bucket, kids know where babies come from (at least tadpoles)Cost: free- Posted using...
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Hey, been working on putting this into Wordpress for a while now and actually have a few posts on the new Wordpress address, just still tweaking stuff. Sorry for the Loooooooooong absence. New...
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