by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Dec 17, 2023 | Project
Walking to work and scones are the themes of this entry. As I write this blog on Friday afternoon, my thighs are burning. From exertion and also from coming in from the cool December air. This morning, I completed a goal that has been bouncing around in my head for...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Dec 7, 2023 | Crazy 8 News, Recipes
Foraging, Poinsettias, Venice & Dough, that’s what I’m thinking about in this week’s blog. Foraging Foraging for winter decorations is one of my favourite things to do. When the air is crisp with abrilliant blue sky, I layer on my fall clothes...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 29, 2023 | About Us, Blog
The last day of harvest is bittersweet. Like the native vine with striking orange berries, it is crusty and brilliant all at the same time. Susanne heading to the combine on the last day of harvest. We finished combining corn last Friday afternoon. In the morning,...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 21, 2023 | About Us, About Us, Blog
It took 9 seconds to raise a cupola. I had worried for weeks, months, maybe years. It had taken nine years to arrive at that moment in 2012: the day when the cupola would be placed back on the top of our octagon barn. The Original Cupola The original cupola blew off...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 10, 2023 | About Us
Moon Flowers Someday soon, all the men who walked on the moon will be dead. On a summer night, the orange-coloured sphere rises above the southeastern horizon, Its midnight trajectory guided by the pinpoints of Saturn and Jupiter. In its full phase, the moon...
