Category: Eating Locally

  • The Chicks are Here

    Tweet This is going to be a short post, but I just wanted to throw a couple of photos up of our new chicks that we have at Babci’s house. They are sitting in her living room right now. My whole family was out of commission all week because of a horrendous virus, but luckily…

  • Babci’s Getting Chickens

    Tweet I had my first house hunting letdown this week. We found a funky fixer upper on 10 acres in a good location and after 3 visits decided to put what I thought was a very attractive offer in. We gave the sellers an offer at the home’s assessed value and given that properties have…

  • Adventures in Canoeing

    Tweet My husband is a big fisherman and last year he decided we need a canoe so that he could fish the local ponds here and in his hometown which we often frequent in the summer. I scored a great deal on an old town canoe on craigslist for $150 and we haven’t looked back.  …

  • Trying to Buy local with Babci in Tow

    Tweet Yesterday was my second visit of the season to the farmer’s market. Early on in New England, there is little local food to be had, so the farmer’s market is generally just a rainbow of annuals filling the parking lot that they occupy.  It’s very pretty but a dangerous place to be for a…