This happened here in southern Minnesota, Brad Finstad’s hometown. Made the front page of the local paper. Today I got an email from Finstad’s office with the subject “I want to hear from you”. It was a one question survey. Apparently there is no limit to the number of times I can respond.

This is how we celebrated NYE - how was yours?

Happy fifth day of Christmas!

I guess a few of you still need this reminder from Lady Mary…

Beware the Ghost of Christmas Future Imperfect Conditional, friends.

Apricot chutney!

Christmas jam!

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

Evensong was lovely.

The chard that will not die:

John Wesley meme for the day.

14 years ago today I was apparently canning tomato sauce. Guess what I’m doing today?

Oh! Oh! @sacwriter.bsky.social check out my follower count! Matches my age. This is gonna be a good year!

Been gone all week. Came home to a bushel of tomatoes waiting to be picked and this.

High tea for my birthday. The food was delicious and I was too busy enjoying it to take pictures, but I did remember to keep my pinkie up. So did Bruce.

You only turn 69 once.

Picture of freshly baked English muffins in the foreground, muffins waiting to be baked, and electric skillet baking a batch in the background.