Farmwife at Midlife -: 04/01/2015

April 21, 2015

Celebrating 10 Years of Blogging!

Illustration © Hillary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

Today, April 21st, 2015 is the 10th anniversary of my In the Pantry blog and of my blogging anything at all, in fact. I don't post regularly there any more but there will be many changes taking place over here at "Farmwife at Midlife" regarding related writing, blogs, and other exciting things to share. I'll be detailing everything in the coming weeks.

A bit of necessary "housekeeping" and tidying-up. Then I plan to write here more regularly again. It's been a busy nine months since I last posted.

The Pantry-Its History and Modern Uses is still available from my website. I will continue to post pantry-related updates as I can as pantries will always be in our lives.

My very best wishes and thanks for your readership over the years.

–You come back when you're ready!

Catherine

Welcome to our Farm !

I am now a farmwife. Make that a farmwife-in-training: not the most organized and always with much still to learn. In 2008 we moved from an historic New England family manse to a doublewide on a ridge in Kentucky. Just imagine The Beverly Hillbillies in reverse. [We even have a 'cement pond' - a large cattle tank.] Since then we've expanded the farm and are living across the road at Ida Doyle Dye's old homeplace and in her family's cabin-turned-cottage which we purchased in 2009.

I have written my blog In the Pantry since 2005 around my book, The Pantry. Farmwife at Midlife is blog about our farm life and my journey to the western Appalachian foothills at midlife–with all of those wild, and wonderful, peaks and valleys. We love our Kentucky home and feel blessed to be a part of this place– "What we need is here." [WBerry]

Farmwife Credits

• Every farmwife needs a farmer and mine had the vision of Kentucky from the start and, thankfully, brought me along for the ride. We met nearly 43 years ago in a hay field at my grandparents' New Hampshire farm and have been married for over 20–I believe we're stuck with each other.

• I am indebted to my neighbor on the next ridge, Margaret Jasper, for introducing me to this vernacular salutation from the Kentucky hills: You come back when you're ready!