Archive for the ‘Family - Emma’ Category
January 4, 2010 – Emma’s 2nd Wood Project
You may remember the beautiful cutting board Emma made as her first big wood shop project. Her next project was to replace the fiberboard white shelf above the sink that had seen its better days. She was very reluctant, if unwilling to be photographed with the shelf.
But ol’ Dad pulled one of the oldest tricks ...Read more.
January 1, 2010 – Looking Back on 2009
Seems like everyone puts together some kind of year-in-review (and some decades in review this year). I’m not ambitious enough to sort through the last decade, but I will take a shot at the year in review. So without much further ado – the things we’ll remember most about 2009 in no particular ...Read more.
December 25, 2009 – Merry Christmas 2009
The family with the traditional pose under the tree.
one year ago…”Merry Christmas”
December 5, 2009 – Gift Box Assembly
Today is gift box assembly day. Tomorrow we’ll post photos of this year’s offerings.
Martin brings up the jam from the basement.
The products get labeled, wrapped, and boxed on the dining room table – Emma is wrapping the goat milk soap.
one year ago…”2009 High Hopes Gift Boxes”
December 2, 2009 – Emma’s Woodworking
Emma made a replacement in-counter cutting board for the house. When we bought the house the pull-out board was in bad shape, so we just threw it out and used smaller counter-top cutting boards until Emma asked us what we wanted her to make in her wood shop class. Without thinking long at all, we ...Read more.
November 28, 2009 – Emma on the Hardwoods
Emma switched school districts this year to attend a larger school with more opportunities. She’s getting into the swing of things with a new basketball team. She plays on the 9th grade team and also has been getting a minutes on JV.
Here, Emma listens to the coach during a TO.
#50 is starting to be a ...Read more.
November 6, 2009 – New Layers
We were alerted to someone who had brooded more heavy breed layers than they could accommodate, so we bought 20 pullets just about ready to lay. We’ll put some of our older hens in the freezer for stewing.
The girls bringing the pullets into the chicken coop.
One of the more interesting pullets is this Speckled Sussex ...Read more.
October 21, 2009 – Garlic Planting
When the girls got home from school, I decided it was time to make a rush to get some garlic in the ground. Garlic is a great crop as it doesn’t need to be put in the ground in the spring.
The garlic cloves, recently separated from their bulbs.
The girls planting a furrow of garlic. We ...Read more.
October 2, 2009 – Applesauce Day
I’ll spare you the details of the processing, but today might be a record canning day at high hopes! The girls spent about three hours peeling apples, and we had some bags of apples in the freezer from earlier maturing trees. We made nine canner’s worth of applesauce. Apples take a while to cook into ...Read more.
September 25, 2009 – Photo Friday “the Face”
Photo Friday is a weekly photo challenge that offers up a theme and people post photos about that theme. I’m an intermittent participant, depending on the theme and what’s going on at the farm. This week’s theme is “the face” and my entry this week is one of pure joy from Emma on ...Read more.
September 19, 2009 – Joint Birthday Parties
Since this is, in theory, Claire’s last birthday at home, the girls decided to have a joint birthday party this year. Their choice was to each invite 10 friends for an evening of fun like only high hopes gardens can provide. The night started out with a taco bar under the tent shelter, adorned with ...Read more.
August 20, 2009 – First Day of School
This year the kids all got on the same bus the first day of school!
Although this isn’t the typical portrait, it does show life waiting for the bus circa 2009. Oldest daughter texting someone. Young, skinny, boy huddles up trying to stay warm on the unseasonably cool August morning and middle daughter does well to ...Read more.
August 15, 2009 – Atlantic Whale Watching
More guest blogging from Emma…
I had the opportunity to go to the marine sanctuary outside of Boston to look for whales. We were fortunate enough to see around 6 whales.
A boat that was the exact same kind as the one we took.
The boat ride was very windy and I let down my hair and enjoyed ...Read more.
August 14, 2009 – New England Dining
Emma’s blogging again today…
While we were in Salem and Boston, we had the chance to eat some really great seafood and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. A little restaurant I really enjoyed was a little seafood place with lots of open air places with a view of the sea. I went for lunch and ...Read more.
