I had to restrain myself from jumping and squealing when the mailman rang my bell this morning to deliver a parcel from my parents back in Ontario on Lawless Lane Farm. Well, I restrained myself long enough to take the heavy package from his hands, say thanks, and let him go on his merry way delivering mail… then I squealed once the door was shut.
I opened the box and what did I find – a nature spirit card with a letter from my mom, a gorgeous cookbook from my Mom’s trip to Scotland in September called Maw Broon’s But an’ Ben Cookbook, a fruitcake made with my great grandmother’s recipe well-soaked in brandy, and the lovely results of my mom’s canning this fall which consisted of zucchini relish, zucchini pineapple marmalade, my great aunt Peggy’s famous green tomato chutney, and my mom’s famous apple jelly made from the heirloom apples from the farm’s orchard. Thanks mom!
I usually also get maple syrup which my dad harvests every winter from his Sugar Maples and Yellow Birches in the old growth forest half of his 82 acres, but I’m well stocked up on jars of it from my visit last winter. He boils it outside in the snow over a woodstove. You can probably tell without my saying it, but my parents are regulars at their local farmer’s market. My mom was finally able to send me some pictures as they only have dial-up internet which hates image files and videos. So I’ve also added some Lawless Lane Farm pictures of my dad with his trusty dog at his heels and of their baby Dexter cows, aren’t they just the cutest?!
