http://www.larksongknits.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:44:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My dad, who has made me all sorts of great spindles and fiber tools,  made me a new spinning wheel flyer to replace the broken one on my Louet-S10! (It arrived just in time for my birthday.)  YAY!!!! It's rainy and yucky out today (although, I'm grateful, because the seeds we've ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/03/11/flyer/ Seems like we've been living in our wellies this week as we spent most of our time planting in the garden.  This week we've started: Peas, round two, this time in the front yard - Little Marvel, Tall Telephone, and Oregon Sugar Pod II. Potatoes, in three beds in the backyard, near ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/03/10/got-our-wellies-on/ Monday is baking day. We're enjoying the Monday tradition of baking homemade bread.  Our favorite "fancy" recipe is Challah - the dough is so kid-friendly, the results wow everybody, and nothing goes better with homemade jam. It looks like the sun is starting to come out, so I think we'll go plant ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/03/08/baking-day/ We scrapped all other plans for today, and simply played in in the dirt. As Firecracker said, "There's nothin' more natural than gettin' dirty." Somehow, in the midst of playing "dirt fairies", "cruel dirt queen who makes her workers dig all day", "climb dirt mountain", "search for worms and buried treasure", and ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/03/01/little-ragamuffins/ You know what they say - "Good things comes in small packages."  I think tomato seeds are just about the best small package around -they contain the promise of wonderful meals to come. I know our garden is going to be growing food for more than our nuclear family, and therefore ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/26/tomato-seeds/ Little Hen and I made this recipe for spiced pulled-pork (from Sunset Magazine) for dinner two nights ago.  I have yet to find a Sunset recipe that is a dud - there are always keepers in ever issue -but this one was a cut above.  Oh my goodness, the allspice ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/25/ridiculously-good-dinner/ The girls are listening to Daddy read The Mousehunter at bedtime, but our daytime book selection reflects the unusually sunny, warm weather that has us all thinking of anything except the tail-end of winter. We just finished listening to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Which is why we're starting an asparagus bed -  ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/24/what-were-reading-this-week/ We're working on a converting our front lawn into veggie beds, and the unseasonably warm and dry weather has helped us get a jump start on sheet mulching.  Goodbye lawn, hello permaculture landscape!  While Tum Tum and I spread cardboard, straw, manure and compost, Little Hen and her Daddy were ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/22/why-i-havent-been-blogging-the-past-week-or-so/ This photo pretty well sums up our morning literary activities of late. First thing this morning, we had to get a bit pot of chili blanco going on the stove, and batch of brownies in the oven, since it's our turn to bring dinner to our homegroup.   While Firecracker helped measure ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/09/morning-reading/ The intense sunshine this afternoon has all of us anxious for spring, but this morning's hard frost was a good reminder that winter hasn't left us yet.  It's clear we're moving toward spring, though - we opened the kitchen window to get a better listen to the a few birds ... http://www.larksongknits.com/2010/02/08/late-winter-nature-table/