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A Childhood Favourite: Bachelor Cake Dessert
This recipe was one of my childhood favourites. It only got made by request when one of my family members […]

Shepherd’s Pie For a Cool Fall Day
I often hear people say that they have bought a Shepherd’s Pie from Costco or the grocery store for dinner. […]

Wood burned Wedding Gift Momentos
Two years ago while visiting on Vancouver Island, we managed to get a 12 ft Douglas Fir 4X4 post. The […]

Collecting Some Wheat By Hand
We were out for a walk around our property on Sept. 1. A wheat field was planted on a small […]

Foraging For Rose Hips in my own Backyard
On our property, in the trees, we have wild roses. I never really understood why Alberta’s flower is the wild […]

Remembering the Queen’s Visit to my Home Town
On Thursday I had glanced at my iPad and saw the news that the queen had passed away. I felt […]

A Heart Made of Scrap Wood
My husband was first to start to create and build out of wood. He would use leftover wood from basement […]

Make Your Own Suet Cakes for the Birds
I have always hung out a birdfeeder in our yard at the different houses we have owned. I don’t know […]

My Chokecherry Harvest
In the spring I came across two trees on the edge of our driveway and the fire pit that had […]