All of these pre-Christmas sales! Flyers stacked on flyers, stacked on flyers, arriving in the mail. The thing is, the prices for everything I am looking at are very, very high. With prices this high, we will make very few purchases, and will insist that everything we buy be made in Canada, if at all… Continue reading Price Increases
Author: Maggie Turner
Cupcakes and Stun Guns and Bank Shenanigans
I get an RSS feed from a homesteading site. These people merely collect and distribute articles, as opposed to writing about their own experiences. Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes what they share makes my head spin. Here are two consecutive articles they posted: Christmas Tree Strawberry Brownie Cupcake Mix, and How To Make A… Continue reading Cupcakes and Stun Guns and Bank Shenanigans
Plenty
This morning five inches of snow rests lightly on the deck railing. The pre-solstice snow is always beautiful to my eyes. In January I start to need snow goggles, by March I am as driven as a snowflake in a blizzard, to see the last of it. Falling on all that beautiful snow this morning… Continue reading Plenty
Kettles and Coolers
Part 1 So here it is, December! I am writing this from the little house in the city. We drove down on Friday night, got here just before midnight. Mist will spend two nights on her own. We turned on the electric heat before we left, so the temperature will not drop to freezing no… Continue reading Kettles and Coolers
Black Friday
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! What is this thing today, Black Friday! The names says it all to me! A day of dark doings. We will not be saving money by spending money we do not have. Food and shelter and health care are not on sale, so there isn’t anything of… Continue reading Black Friday