When I was a little girl, my grandparents took me to see some rustic bee hives, tucked on a mountain side. These hives are tree trunks, capped with a piece of slate, set in a field of heather and chestnut trees. In the mountains of Ardèche, in France, these bees had a pretty ideal existence!! [...]
First week of our major kitchen renovation It was a typical Monday morning…until we told the kids to graffiti the kitchen wall with a permanent marker. Day one of our long awaited kitchen renovation needed something notable; something to mark the occasion. So after the graffiti, we gave the kids a hammer and suggested [...]
This is not by choice! In the spring our oven started to have a mind of its own; not a characteristic I look for in any appliance. Given its age and the model, the thing’s not worth fixing. And since the rest of the kitchen is also falling apart – it is at least 20 [...]