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Bringing Home the Bacon
Even though we slaughtered over two weeks ago, all the bits of the pig are always hanging around for the longest time, being cured, and ground, and whatnot. I always love opening my fridge and seeing...
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Lè Buerre
I spent all last week with my head buried in baking cookbooks. Here is the result. My favorite one was basically a primer on French style pastry. I love French desserts because they have twice as much...
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Global cooking, unschooling and the care and feeding of nine year olds.
Nine year olds are feisty argumentative creatures and I have been banging heads with Angelica ever since she turned nine. ( Ben will tell you it has been going on a whole lot longer :) While we are...
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It's spring! We have been traveling in Indiana visiting relatives and having a grand old time. Now we are back home and spring literally burst out in full force. I have even cracked out the sandals in...
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I finally finished the writing and research for a talk that I gave this past weekend on the Genius of Woman and the Spiritual Craft of Homemaking. Reading John Paul II is always laborious but SO...
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Wee room for a wee lass. . . . .
Ronia has been in our room for a year now and really she still sleeps in our bed, but Ben has been feeling the need for a room where we can shut the door and have husband and wife chit-chat away from...
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Pasqua!
Hooray! He is Risen and Lent is over! We have been enjoying meat and wine every day of the octave this year and I feel like my head is swimming. I am working my way thru a cookbook based on one of my...
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Finally easter pics. (warning cranky post to follow)Well, it is election time again and I pretty much washed my hands of politics years ago. I never put much faith in politicians and feel like if they...
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Ben is back from Houston! He was only gone two days but it always feels a little bit like a convent when he is gone, being all women here. We are happy to have him back. I got lots of mowing done (all...
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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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Article 10
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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