Our Lifestyle Blog as We Create a Homestead in Northern Ontario
As the summer winds down and we find ourselves at the Equinox, my thoughts turn to the winter ahead. The past three winters we have spent here in Thunder Bay have certainly been different than we expected. After what seemed to us to have been a continuing stream of mild winters, we moved here to … Read more
No, it wasn’t a used iPhone or something like that. It was literally a crabapple that we invested over $175.00 in growing. As you remember, we planted two apple trees about four months ago. One of them produced a lovely little crabapple, and with Aunt A! visiting us last weekend, we decided to finally taste … Read more
As part of the repercussions of moving the washing machine from the sauna to the cabin, we no longer are as encouraged to hang the laundry at the sauna to dry. It is, and will continue to be, far more convenient to be able to deal with the damp clothes close to where they are … Read more
Well, I have been big on making sure we don’t have too many unitaskers in our lives. The rice cooker, in spite of its’ name, surely isn’t one of these! I have prepared a number of interesting meals in it. Recently, we were out of bread and so Kenny and I decided to see if … Read more