My goodness the daylight hours are incredibly short right now.  It’s dark by 5 p.m., which means I’m spending a good amount of time in my favorite chair next to the woodstove and a good lamp crafting. I did take some time to craft a few things for us, too, this past weekend.  In the [...]

It seems to me that winter officially arrives when snowy footprints cover the steps and porch leading to the front door and cat prints criss-cross the snowy yard.  If that’s true, then winter has arrived here at Two Frog Home.  Although, this may be short-lived as the temperatures are predicted to rise.  However, I know [...]

Twomgroups of turkeys paid us a visit this weekend: The two groups visited on the same day and it was quite the lesson in watching the two Tom’s strut their stuff.  It was an interesting experience and we were completely taken with the turkeys watching them for a good long while.  Meggy, too, watched with [...]

We had a wonderful dinner Saturday night with our friends.  Thanks to everyone who chipped in on the dinner choices.  Ultimately we had the potato soup with homemade challah and a dark chocolate layer cake with coffee frosting for dessert.   Jeff lobbied hard for the potato soup, saying that I misled everyone by calling it [...]

So we finished the first month of the 6 month no grocery challenge and on the last day of the first month, we had to buy something.  We hadn’t thought about Halloween and so we did buy one small bag of candy.  We didn’t expect many trick-or-treaters but we didn’t want to be caught without [...]

It’s officially leaf raking season here at Two Frog Home.  We had that freeze a few weeks back and its been warming up since, I fully expected the leaves to just drop once it got back into the 60 degree temps.  Well, they haven’t all fallen, but they are certainly falling in big loads.  We [...]

   It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween around here.  Oddly enough (or not that odd, considering my dislike of holiday decorating) all my Halloween decorations have been gifts.  The frog above is from my friend Jen and does stay out most of the time, because it is a frog afterall.  The gourd Jeff [...]

My goodness, I’m glad we spent last weekend winterizing, because winter arrived early here in Northwest Montana.  Friday morning we woke up to our first snow of the season, most of it has melted except for in the shady spots.  It’s early even for us and more snow is expected this week.  The weekend temperatures [...]

My goodness that was a whirlwind of a weekend!  I taught a canning class on Saturday that was full of wonderful folks – truly wonderful.  I even had my first father / son combo and I can’t begin to say how that delighted me.  It was fun to have a pre-teen around and one that was [...]

I peruse the Craigslist postings a few times a week, just because you never know when you’ll see a really good deal on canning jars or something else.  Last week, I noticed a listing offering to barter pears & plums, I e-mailed the poster and offered to barter some of our homegrown apples.  She accepted [...]