by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 19, 2012 | Family, Food, Friends
I’m heading home to WV for Thanksgiving this year. It’s rare that I go home–we usually spend the holiday with my husband’s family a mere 90 minutes away in SC. And I LOVE spending Thanksgiving with his family. But somehow the food isn’t...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 7, 2012 | Family, Food, Miracles
My husband knows how to get me. For the past several months he’s been able to procure raw cow’s milk for us. Having grown up on a farm with a milk cow, this is just about the best thing he’s ever done in my opinion. I still don’t like the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 2, 2012 | Food, Friends, Nature, Thistle, Waiting
We had a couple of inches of snow from Hurricane Sandy. Nothing compared to what folks further north are contending with, but it was pretty dramatic for Western North Carolina. Now the snow is gone, the sun is shining and . . . it’s still autumn. Oh, plenty of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 1, 2012 | Food, Friends, Miracles, Nature, Reading, Waiting
Last Friday I wrote about the bacon shortage that isn’t. A friend pointed out that most of us have gone without something at some point and survived it. Which got me thinking about what I’ve had to go without and how I handled it. Electricity. We’ve...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 28, 2012 | Food, Thistle, Waiting
So, if you’re a big fan of pork products like I am, the news this past week proclaiming a coming bacon shortage was not welcome. Turns out though, the porkocalypse is a bunch of hogwash. Yes, the drought has caused ingredients in hog feed to rise and yes, the...
