Big Wheels Keep on Turning
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Inspirations, Life Dream, Personal on 29. Sep, 2009 | 16 Comments
Can I tell you a secret?
Time moves really fast.
I’m not kidding. One minute you’re nineteen, and the next minute you’re twenty-seven.
One minute you’re on the cusp of a big adventure, and the next minute you’ve achieved your dream and you’ve been living your dream for almost two years.
This was supposed to be a “one-year [...]
Giant Pumpkin Experiment – The Results!
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Outdoors on 24. Sep, 2009 | 13 Comments
Once upon a time, in a world far far away, I thought that I’d have time to grow a pumpkin. I had an idea (thanks to a pumpkin-crazed friend) that we should all grow pumpkins.
I sent a call out to the world, yelling, “Get your pumpkin seeds here! Get y’r pumpkin seeds here, everybody!”
The world [...]
Snow Boots
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Life Dream, Personal on 19. Sep, 2009 | 23 Comments
It was precisely one week before we began our cross-country adventure. We were about to leave the warm and rainy west coast to drive across Canada in the middle of winter. In one week we would be willingly driving through snow, blizzards, and ice.
I was a west coast city girl. I had high heels, sneakers, [...]
Dunn Creek Farm
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Outdoors, Prince Edward Island on 10. Sep, 2009 | 10 Comments
We recently visited John Quimby of Dunn Creek Farm who was kind enough to have us over for a tour of his certified organic farm in Murray Harbour North.
He was also kind enough to stuff us full of organic veggies at his kitchen table and send us home with baskets of organic potatoes, yellow beans, [...]
I Needed a Vision
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Life Dream, Personal on 03. Sep, 2009 | 35 Comments
The past year has been full of glee, glory, stress, change, beauty and floundering.
After we arrived here on PEI and purchased our beloved Whimfield home, we’d achieved our goal–our life-dream. Our goal had been years in the making. The preceding years had been focused on working towards achieving our goal of selling everything, moving across [...]