And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. -J.R.R. Tolkein   With the hustle and bustle of Christmas gone around here, and the New Year started, we… Continue reading

And now  we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. – Rainer Maria Rilker   What a year 2016 has been here for us on the farm. I can’t believe we have already celebrated Christmas and… Continue reading

There is no Christmas Like a home Christmas For that’s the time of year All roads lead home! Christmas is fast approaching. If you’re one of those people counting down you already know that there are only 12 days to… Continue reading

November was a busy month for us here on the farm; with hunting season, baby showers and getting ready for the winter months. Now we find ourselves in December, and I am wondering where this year has gone?! I guess… Continue reading

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” – Aldo Leopold   If you had asked me ten years ago about my views on hunting, you’d have gotten an answer much different than one you… Continue reading

I find that life here on the farm never has a dull moment. That when we opened up our home and our hearts and welcomed animals onto our property, we invited with them all kind of trials and tribulations. I… Continue reading

“November is the pearl-grey month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December; the month when the leaves fall in slow drifting whirls and the shapes of the trees are revealed. When the earth imperceptibly wakes and stretches her bare limbs and displays her stubborn unconquerable strength before she… Continue reading

literally “window-weather” – the type of weather that is best appreciated indoors.       Icelandic Today has started off as a day to hide indoors with a wood fire blazing, a hot coffee in hand and a new blog… Continue reading

“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.” – John Galsworthy I had always wanted a dog. I had… Continue reading

We find ourselves already in the middle of September, wrapped up in the turning of the seasons and the beginnings of the Autumn season. We find ourselves in the midst of harvest, garden clean up, canning and preparing for the… Continue reading