We’ve all heard how important it is to eat a diet high in roughage. Likewise, “roughaging” (spending time outdoors) is essential to our mental health. Even if it’s a settee on the porch, we need it, gotta have it. I aim to be the reason you pulled your bedding out the back door last night.
Margi says: You did not put the amount of recipe for the cream cheese part on the pumpkin brownies!
Winnie Nielsen says: Amber waves of grain on the beautiful Palouse.
Happy Friday MaryJane~ Warren and I just discovered what the crashing sound was last night. The screen on my desk window was chewed out, two bathroom stops were made by our fireplace, and the remnants of what looks like a bag of granola was left behind a futon! Ah, Ha! Last night we looked around, found nothing and just went on with the evening. However, today when I came home…..Bump was outside and he was INSIDE when I left. So, following one discovery after another, we have now concluded that the door that was left open a crack last night when Bump was going in and out, also brought IN a clever friend from the neighborhood. Apparently, he brought his own snack from somewhere else and then decided when he was ready to go, to just chew a nice fat opening and head out the window. My guess is this morning, Bump must have gotten hold of the scent of his tracks and followed it to the opening in the window and just headed out himself. Normally he is not anywhere outside except the backyard because he has no front claws. It looks like he got back into the backyard by sweeping himself underneath the fence in the driveway. Of course, when we asked him what happened, we just got lots of meows and twirling for pets and food. LOL!! I guess some secrets just can’t be shared.
You definitely found a slice of Creator’s Heaven on Earth. And I am including that it is not by chance that this has happened, because, at my age, I’ve learned our minute-to-minute, day-to-day, week-to-week choices (thoughts, words, actions, feelings, …) add up to whether we move toward a heavenly or opposite place in life. milkaTheAppreciator
MaryJane says: So true. Right now I’m looking out over those same hills with intermittent sunshine and golden fields. Divine.
Winnie Nielsen says: What a cool porch light!!
Good Morning MaryJane from the airport in Atlanta. Making my way west to Tulsa OK for the weekend to help celebrate her 10 year anniversary of her folk art business! Wagons Ho for the next leg in a few more minutes. Some of us Farmgirls on the loose are beholden to things like airplanes since we don’t have Glampers . Delta does a good job of making it as easy as possible and they only serve fresh brewed Starbucks coffee. It tasted so wonderful when we left Gainesville at , ahem, 6 AM!
MaryJane says: Nothing like that first fresh cuppa. Have a great time flying happy trails.
Lorraine says: The lovely sight of fall!
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Looks like autumn to me, thanks for this lovely evocative photo
We had two Birch trees in our front yard growing up. I even remember helping to plant them and then watching them grow so much faster than me! This photo reminds me of my Virginia Home Sweet Home.
Happy Friday sweet MaryJane!! It is also a beautiful fall morning here in Florida. My thanks to the Jet Stream for making it big effort to finally pay us a visit this week and blow away all that forever Summer we just couldn’t get out from under. I celebrated our first cool day with making black bean/sweet potato chili and your Buttermilk Biscuits from the new Cast Iron Cookbook in my Mama’s skillet. Topped with the new jar of Apple Pie Jam I found, we had a dinner fit for a King! Warren gave them a definite thumbs up which means please make these again and often. LOL!! Next up will be the sweet potato rolls this weekend and the Buttermilk-Biscuit Apple Pie. Cool weather just inspires me to make old fashioned and beloved recipes with my cast iron. I also need to get my Milk cow Kitchen book out and make fresh butter and perhaps some compound butters for the sweet potato rolls. Wish I could just sit on the porch of the BunkHouse Kitchen with you to enjoy some hot morning biscuits and coffee! If you end up doing that yourself, just remember I am there in Farmgirl solidarity with you for preserving the best of our Grandmothers and Mothers kitchens.
I just started a book about a woman from southern Appalachia region of N.C., Aunt Arie, which is about a woman who became a focus of an English teacher and her students at a nearby local high school. They made hundreds of visits and Aunt Arie welcomed them to her very humble log cabin up a hill in the mountains. She cooked for them on her wood stove and they helped her and learned how to make the fires just perfect. Then after an abundant dinner of whatever was in season and available, they washed dished outside in two basins of hot water from drawn well water heated on the wood stove. It is just the first few chapters that I’ve read, but I am loving this story. She was a true Farmgirl at Heart just living her simple life with joy and good will.
Your meals and yummies were described so vividly I could almost smell them. And a good book to enjoy them with. Aunt Arie knows how to teach a thing or two. What a wonderful experience every child deserves. Have you come across the concept of “schooling” in Finland?
Schooling in Finland is unknown to me but I am going to look it up and read more. Thanks for the lead.
How lovely!