Stormy days ahead, Thor must be getting ready for harvest. Life here at the old homestead is getting along slowly in the summer heat. I'm learning to embroider and sew by hand - using proper old techniques, cleaning the house room by room and, like always, cooking food. The homemade bread just ran out, the butter ran out a few days ago. They were both wonderful, we'll easily be doing that again! Next week, after the move, we're going on a long walk/short trek & I know for a fact there's wild garlic and blackberries on the route - I'd love to add those to my cooking. Cheers

Tomorrow is loafmas, the first harvest celebration of the year! My boyfriend has been meaning to bake a loaf then for a while now, and to encourage him I made butter from scratch today - so we can enjoy the bread in its simplest form. I ended up with quite a lot of fresh butter, so I stuck half of it in the freezer so we can have some for equinox and harvest proper as well.