At an auction this week there were a couple of cookbooks that I was interested in acquiring. The auctioneer grouped them together with about fifty others. So for $10 I got three books of books, mostly cookbooks.
In going through them to price them for the shop I came across a number of papers used as [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Other People’s Cookbooks
Posted in The Shop on December 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
53 Gallons of Hard Cider
Posted in In the Cottage on December 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »
This photo was taken in our garage. I know it looks bad, but let me explain.
This is about 200 bottles of Farmhouse style hard cider which was produced in our garage by our son and his friend. There were over 300 bottles before his friend took his share. This was bottled out of a 55 gallon oak [...]
Tie up your Christmas Tree
Posted in In the Cottage on December 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Daily now people mention that they are working on their trees. This particular weekend before Christmas always seems to be a very busy tree weekend. Yesterday a young woman was telling me that several times she has decorated her tree, only to have it fall over . She had had many antique glass ornaments given [...]
Twitter / preservecottage- preservecottage: Four mile run today in record time...another benefit of the hiatus. It has been a great lesson in taking the time to do what you have to
- preservecottage: Just discovered summer sm hiatus produced great spike in sales. But I miss my friends.
- preservecottage: Back into the universe and trying to figure out how to put all the pieces back together
- preservecottage: wondering how a project I thought would take a couple of months has turned into a four month project, at least
- preservecottage: wondering if alternating 1/2 hours working at computer and 1/2 hours doing moving tasks would help aging metabolism
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Lila appreciates all of you who have asked about her. Here she is in all her charismatic intensity. Slices of Life
