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Recipe: Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
Chocolate pumpkin muffins – it’s time! It’s mid October and the pumpkin spice is all around. These muffins are healthy-ish and the perfect little afternoon snack, or even for a quick breakfast on the go. One of the main reasons I like making these is then I have enough pumpkin left over for these easy pancakes. Total score. Okay, let’s get baking. Ingredients 1 1/2 cup of gluten free flour 1/4 cup of coco powder 1/2 cup of sugar 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, baking…
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Photos: Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving weekend and the leaves are blowing around the front yard and I’m thankful for so many things: my lovely little family, the strong connections I share with the amazing people in my life, a wonderful job and blogging. I’m so grateful to have a space where I can share my love for life. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always love life – sometimes it is unfair, illogical, and dark; yet blogging, for me, moves me past that into the light. And, the…
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Recipe: Apple Butter
Apple butter time! Last week I made easy apple sauce, well this week it’s apple butter time. The tree in my front yard is huge so I needed another apple recipe. Let’s get cooking! Oh, and a bonus – this recipe is only 4 ingredients. Ingredients 24 apples 1 tablespoon of cinnamon 1/2 a teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of lemon juice Get out the crock-pot. Wash and cut your apples. No need to peal them, just cut them in quarters and get rid of…
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Recipe: Easy Apple Sauce
Easy apple sauce recipe – it’s fall and it’s time to pick apples off our apple tree. That’s right – we have an apple tree. This is an easy apple recipe – only 4 ingredients, two of which are water and salt. Okay, let’s get started! Ingredients 8 apples 1/4 cup of water 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon of salt First, wash, peel and core your apples. Oh, and you might want to double or triple this recipe. I made only one batch and…
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Project: Columnar Norway Spruce Trees
Spruce trees? What? Yes – let’s plant some Columnar Norway Spruce trees. We finished the split rail fence a few weeks ago and we wanted to highlight the end where it opens up to the driveway. What better way than with some stunning trees. These trees are perfect for our climate and they will grow to be quite big – 6 feet wide by 20 feet tall. Okay, time to plant them! Columnar Norway Spruce Trees First, pick out your trees. We found these trees…
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Project: Split Rail Fence
The split rail fence – sometimes summer home or property improvements end up being a far lager feat than you ever anticipated. This fence was just that – a huge feat! First, the drive way is more than 250 feet long and we wanted more than 220 feet of it fenced – both sides. That’s 44 post holes and more than 120 rails. The task of treating them all took about 8 hours, 4 hours twice. We treated the wood since we want it to…
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Travel: Paddleboarding
Paddleboarding on Christina Creek! This summer we spent a little over a week in Christina Lake with family – that’s where we were headed when we stopped at Margo’s Farm. The weather was hot and one way to cool off was to take the paddleboards for a spin on the creek. These photos are taken with my iPhone since I don’t have a waterproof bag for my camera, so don’t mind the picture quality. Here we go! Paddleboarding The place we stayed at backed up…
