My aunt was an amazing woman. She was one of that rare breed of women that you don’t see to often anymore…An American Farmer’s Wife.
  Going to her house every summer was not just a vacation it was an EVENT. Her house was old, classic white with a green roof and wavy glass and barns and even a stone milk house. Best of all she had acres and acres of woods, fields and trees for me to explore and a raspberry patch with both the biggest raspberries and biggest mosquitoes that God ever created.  She kept a pot of coffee …read more

  Here is my tale of woe..First my computer went down..then the broudband people say that our house is too far from the base…and we should not be able to get broadband at all even though we have had it for 3 years.  In any casre it is not working now..AH! TThe joy of living in the country..200 feet from the road…
  ANyway..I am on a computer at my husband’s work…and his boss and the friend that is letting me use this computer will be getting a nice baked something very soon…
   This morning I made english muffins. They are …read more

I fed my starter a bit too much, and had to do something with the overflow, so it went into feeding this delightful treat — so delightful, in fact, that my 5-yo had the brilliant idea of shaping them into hearts! My original plan was the traditional shape, and I was just getting ready to open a couple of tins of tuna which is how I made it years and years ago… not English Muffins with Tuna, silly, I used the tins to shape the muffins! But I had to admit using a heart shaped cutter would be …read more