It’s February 29th today. Leap Day as some are calling it. It’s been just another day for me. And then I saw a post on a beautiful and inspiring blog I’ve started following called Keeping With the Times where blog author, Barb, posted a list of 29 moments worth celebrating about this day. She had…
Month: February 2016
Monday Morning
The house is dark and silent save for the hum of the furnace cutting in now and then. It’s comforting, the security of a furnace warming the home for the day. I stand at the bedroom window and throw back the curtains. The pre-dawn view catches me by surprise, yet again, and I stand in…
Lentil Soup
I took advantage of the gift of quiet and snowy days in early January to pull out some cookbooks I collected many years ago. One of my treasured favourites is the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen. It contains a recipe for lentil soup that is described as gentle. It is, indeed, simple and gentle ….
Foraging February
Before we retired, sometimes at the end of a busy week I declared it to be Foraging Friday. That meant Gerry and I would find something to eat on our own and no meal would be prepared for supper. It was a relaxing end to what was often a busy and stress-filled week. This month…