We are fortunate, living as we do in Ontario, to enjoy the public holiday named Family Day. The name alone reminds you to use the day as it was intended, by spending it with those closest to you. Today we did regular chores, played, worked on house projects and did all the regular stuff we do. But we also took time to enjoy this holiday and to celebrate a big accomplishment of the boys this winter, learning to ice skate….
It wasn’t until we had slaughtered our first round of pigs that I fully understood what bacon actually is. I had understood it was a cut of the meat, either from the back or the belly, but I really didn’t understand that until your cure the meat it remains, essentially, pork. There is a magical transformation that takes place, changing it from pork to that most sought after and saliva inducing of meats, bacon. I know that big slabs of…
I know that collecting wood on a sled before breakfast isn’t everyone’s idea of exercise but when the view is this… The world was crusted in diamond this morning, lit up by the rose pink sunrise. A good day to be alive.
Yesterday, after a weekend of the boys being really sick, we managed to get outside for a family walk. Usually through the winter we are out at least each weekend, romping through the fields and blowing away the cobwebs. But this year, what with the polar vortex running rampant and trying to deep freeze us all, it’s been a case of not so much. Stephen ran the tractor through the snow when he was ploughing the driveway so that we…