Every year when we toted the Christmas decorations up from the basement and started untangling the tree lights, one of our inquisitive offspring would reach down into the box and retrieve “the relic.” “You mean you actually put this thing on your tree?” He would be dumbfounded to think that a tinfoil pie plate could
Christmas 50 years ago
Make a sealer ring trivet
If you have lots of old rubber sealer rings in your canning cupboard, here’s a way to recycle some of them. I made this trivet for the Christmas turkey by using variegated Sayelle yarn in festive colours, but the choice can be as varied as the hot dishes under which you place these table savers.
Why Grandma goes grey
Or maybe that was just me screaming at the two-year-old to “stop choking the cat, NOW!” I didn’t learn about toddlers until I became a grandmother. Well, that’s not exactly true, I guess. You can’t raise four children without any of them going through the toddler stage. And I don’t recall temporarily giving any of
Friend or foe?
A gentleman came in wearing a Legion blazer and navy beret, insisting they had both “shrunk” since last year at this time. Coming home from a trip out west one year in November, we stopped for breakfast at a little town in Saskatchewan. The place looked rather deserted as we crossed the railway tracks. No
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
