Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
🌱There's so much bright green, new growth in the woods, not least of which is my beloved skunk cabbage patch! The flowers have faded and leaned over as the huge leaves (they're over a foot high) are pushing their way up.
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Fuzzy ferns in the field! 😍🌱
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
On the windowsill right now. Sage and mint cuttings rooting, to be added to the kitchen garden in a few more weeks, and two daffodils which smell AMAZING. 😍
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Thank you, ladies! These are some beautiful eggs. 😊🐓🍳
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
While T is at a birthday party, P and I are having a date. I left it wide open and asked him yesterday what he might like to do. "Mama, it's been sooooo long since I baked anything - can we bake something?" He has completely independently been working on
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Snowshoeing on the lake. The walk out was... challenging. But they're having fun now.
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
A walk on the beach might be a bit precarious... that ledge is at least six feet high.
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Dad's boat, frozen in and peeking out from under the world's smallest operating drawbridge in my beloved Sandford. #novascotia #nofilter #visitnovascotia
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
It is a beautiful calm and cold morning after the storm. That's the house across the road; it's for sale. It needs either a lot of love or to be torn down. It has a beautiful sunrise view over the fields, and I hear the neighbors are kind of awesome. Goog
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
The wind is still craaaazy out there, but look! We can see the back of the field and the SUN!
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Intense construction going on, including a zip line to transfer materials from the doorknob to the other side of the room. 😍 I'll be stepping on pieces for days! And I see that the print of @adamgrahamphoto's needs straightening, too. :blue_hea
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
So I managed to make it down to the chickens, and now I don't want to leave. I've been taking my time with the chores this morning! It's -13 Celsius, with a windchill of -25. Oh, and it's gusting to 78km/hr. Also, the walk back is uphill, and over my knee
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
He's making supper, too! (This is great!) Breakfast was a puff pancake, a storm day treat of Kraft Dinner for supper.
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
A very sweet boy is making breakfast for us this morning, while the blizzard (not technically a blizzard, but it looks and feels like one) rages outside. I somehow made it to the chickens 🐓 and back, and cleared the bee entrances 🐝 even t
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Braised fennel with Meyer lemon and Parmesan - a first time for this licorice lover to cook fennel! (I'm a fan - and it's really not very licorice-y.)
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Snack at the camp. 🍌 it is such a calm, beautiful morning with two of my valentines! ❤️
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
The lump in the path is T, eating snow by the face full. ❄️❤️
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Friluftsliv is my word of the winter. Its Norweigan and loosely translates to "free air life". Give it a google!
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Happy Valentine's Day from the ladies! (Do you think they might be asking for a rooster?) 😂
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Winter tips and a lotion recipe, on the blog. ❄️(I posted it here on IG a few months ago, there are a few more details on the blog.)
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
There are even hearts over the bathroom window. ❤️ (The cute little hat-wearing head is actually a candle.)
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Home again, home again. 😍
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
The very best kind of perfect snowy afternoon with friends, hot chocolate and cinnamon sugar bread roasted on the fire - it is SO perfect. 😊
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
I am 100% in love with my newest cookbook by @aimeebourque! It arrived a couple of days ago, and I've been sitting down (or standing up) to read a few pages at every opportunity. The recipes are simple but delicious (I used a glaze from one recipe for tod
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
I highly recommend this.
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
The birds are chirping furiously, the sun is rising, I'm in the woods with one of my sweet boys and my Dad.💙❄️
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
Now this is the way to start the day. ❄️💙
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
What happens when bees hit the snow. 🐝😵 I've cleared the entrances to both hives several times over the past couple of weeks, when we've been having icy, snowy, windy storm after storm and they've been blocked with ice. Honeybees are v
Sherrie {birchbarksoap}:
At the kitchen window right now, no tidying or styling - this is living, after all. More hearts! I forget where the felted heart garland came from, but it fits perfectly over the window. Rosemary is drying on the left (I buy it when fresh bundles are 1/2
