Here I am, the first day of November, and I am eating garden Kohlrabi for breakfast. I love Kohlrabi. Attila harvested the last of the Kohlrabi on Saturday, a few small bulbs. After cooking in the Instant Pot, some of the bulbs were fork tender, and some were crunchy. The reason for this difference in… Continue reading Kohlrabi for Breakfast

Autumn has arrived! We have had our first frost, and the temperatures are dipping below t-shirt comfort, well below. For days a cold rain has come down to be driven by wind. Dampness seeps through the invisible open lines between the outdoors and the indoors. Mist Cottage is slowly cooling. This morning the thermostat read… Continue reading Transition

While listening to the audio book “All The Light We Cannot See”, I find my eyes tearing up, and a great sadness welling up from the centre of me. The story is fiction, a collection of experiences that real people may have had, gathered together, then knit into a beautiful, sad blanket. Tears. They aren’t… Continue reading First Frost, October 23, 2021

Challenges Ontario has advised health care providers to once again take up in-person consultations with their patients. Accordingly, both Attila and I have been summoned for consultations. My appointment was this past week. It was interesting. My appointment was for 1 p.m., and I was about ten minutes early. The doors were locked. As I… Continue reading The Cusp

Canning season is not over yet, and today I’ve used the last of the 500 ml jars in our possession. Last evening Attila prepared and roasted the vegetables from the garden to make Salsa Verde. I pureed them in the food processor once they were cool. They were then poured into containers, and kept in… Continue reading No Jars Left!