Santa comes to the farm
My
big brother arrived on Sunday bearing gifts! He looked just like
Santa, walking up the trail with his sack of goodies over his
back...except for the way his legs were bare from where he'd stripped
down to his underwear to wade through the creek.
Mom and Maggie sent
delicious pies and treats and Joey brought a real, live Dutch
oven!!! Then he pulled out yet another package --- Agricola, a
great homesteading board game. The board looks just like the
dream farm I drew six years ago, where I allowed myself to pencil in
another square of orchard or pasture or creek every time I saved up a
thousand bucks for an acre. We played Agricola twice, then heated
up supper in the Dutch oven --- what a luxury!
As a certified
non-Christmas-gifter, I feel a bit hypocritical enthusing about my
gifts, but they sure made me happy. Thank you, everybody, for the
Christmas treats!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Anna,
I'm not a big gamer, but I like board games and am a recovering Sid Myer's Civilization Addict. This one sounds like fun though!