by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog
A Depressing Book Store Visit Here’s how an annual positive event turned into a depressing book store visit. I received a gift card from Chapters for Christmas. I was thankful for it. It meant an annual pilgrimage to a store that has often brought alot of...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 10, 2024 | Project
French River Chicken Haddie Memories This week, I had a mixture of French River Chicken Haddie memories. My daughter, Kate, and her husband, Bob, are selling their delightful farm that is nestled into the woods near the French River. And I have to tell you, my heart...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 10, 2024 | Project
Osage Oranges & Book New Year’s Eve Sometimes when you look back it is interesting how things like osage oranges & book, new year’s even can combine to make an interesting story. When I had a landscaping business from 1999 to 2013, I visited many...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 10, 2024 | About Us, Blog
Gratitude Tortiere & Crossroads Merry Christmas. I’m writing to you today about gratitude, tortiere & crossroads. Manfred and I hope you enjoy the holiday season with a joyful combination of friends, family and quiet solitude. I can’t remember...
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...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 6, 2023 | About Us, Barn Quilts
Hanging On Until The Last Moment November 1st showed us that winter is lurking behind every weather forecast. We awoke to a skiff of snow on the fields, breaking the spell that the warm afternoons of fall had cast over Southwestern Ontario. The winds and rain...
