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Artisanal day trip

I had to go pick the van up. With our family shrinking, and the monthly trips to Calgary no longer happening, my desire for a more winter-worthy minivan is no longer a pressing need. We decided to put some work

Miranda July 2, 2012February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Day in the life, Living simply, Main, Travel

Back-a-century weekend

One hundred and fourteen years, to be exact. A homeschoolers field trip to the historically recreated Fort Steele was perfectly timed. Less than two weeks after Erin’s exciting departure to Montreal, and four days after Noah and Sophie headed out

Miranda September 25, 2011February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Homeschooling, Main

The Cheese Stands Alone

Our cheese is now a month old. It has been coated in fetching red cheese wax and has been sitting in a dark cool crawl space adjacent to our basement foundation for a month now. Probably it should be somewhere

Miranda August 14, 2010February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main

Outdoor shower

Look what we have! I LOVE outdoor showers. There’s something about short bursts of warm water to lather or rinse in, accompanied by warm summer breezes, that leaves me ten times more refreshed than a shower in some sort of

Miranda July 30, 2010February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Living simply, Main, Out on the property

Huaraches

Here’s another chapter in my minimalist footwear adventure story. I made these sandals in the traditional huarache style out of a bit of 4mm rubber outsole material purchased from a cobbler in the area. I traced my feet, cut the

Miranda July 21, 2010June 21, 2017 Closer to the source, Living simply, Running

Earth oven

I spent some time this weekend learning how to build an earth oven. When we wrecked our old deck and built a new one in a slightly different orientation, we ended up with a vacant sunny spot 4 metres from

Miranda July 18, 2010February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Living simply, Main

Building a gaming machine

Noah has always been the heaviest computer user amongst or kids. He’s a self-made geek who has become a whiz at tinkering with software. Recently he’s been straying into the realm of hardware, trouble-shooting connections and adding secondary drives. But

Miranda July 12, 2010February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main, Science

Carding jag

Thanks to a borrowed drum carder, this phase is going reasonably efficiently. But it still takes ages. We’ve spent hours at it over the past couple of days.

Miranda November 3, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Fibre arts, Main

Hanging over our heads

The first colour, the first twenty per cent of our washed and carded fleece, hanging to dry above our heads at the apex of the living room ceiling. This is about 250 gm or half a pound. We have a

Miranda October 30, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Fibre arts, Main

Granola

About 16 years ago I was busy at home when I got a surprise visit from an old medical school friend. She just dropped in and we had a brief though lovely visit. It was one of those moments, though,

Miranda October 10, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Living simply, Main, Recipes

Pantry joy

This is what keeps me going through two hundred pounds of pears, recurrent apple-picking sessions, the grinding of spelt and wheat, the hours of collating, sorting and hauling around bulk orders of nuts and grains. The pleasure of a pantry

Miranda September 30, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main

Pears done!

We finished with the last of the pears today. We spent the afternoon picking an awful lot of tart apples. Then we combined them in a 3:1 ratio with the pears. We filled the cider press five times just today,

Miranda September 26, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main, Out on the property

Pear production

We’re into day three of pear processing here. All six trays of the dehydrator have been loaded up yet again. We pulled out our copy of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen” by Harold McGee

Miranda September 20, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Living simply, Main, Science

Ap-pearant bounty

Today we cleaned a pear tree for a seasonal resident. It took four of us an hour and a half to pick about 200 pounds of pears. For the homeowners we’re providing a service — ridding their tree of fruit

Miranda September 16, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main, Out on the property, The Natural World

Whoot! Wheat!

I thought I had missed out. I had tried to buy a share in the Kootenay Grain CSA but hadn’t heard back from them last spring. But today at the Garlic Festival I found out they still have a few

Miranda September 13, 2009February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Main
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