Down T' Home

By Marion Tucker Honeycutt

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• Cattail pancakes

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - May 16
  Once springs breaks open in Maine, things happen fast. Up pop the dandelions and fiddleheads and if you don’t pick/dig them right away, they’re ...
  

• Bless the old tractors

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 16
  When you get to be my age -- or as a boss said to me some years back: "Let's face it, Marion, you've been 'round the horn a few times." it's ...
  

• Stewed prunes & baking soda

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Mar 20
  I never saw a vitamin bottle when growing up at Grampa and Grammie's on the farm. I never heard anyone, in those days, discussing calories, ...
  

• 25 cord of wood to heat

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 19
  I remember Grampa Roy, with Uncle Milo and cousins Ervin and Berle, going off into the forest with the work horses this time of year to fell trees ...
  

• Vitamin D isn’t…

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jan 22
  Vitamin D isn’t a vitamin. It’s a hormone. Without it, we can fall victim to just about every disease and illness we can think of. We can store it ...
  

• Pity the kids today

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Dec 28
  My niece posted on her Facebook a photo of a backyard, metal framed swing set that carried the caption: “The Original Play Station” I couldn’t ...
  

• One-stop shopping

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Nov 27
  (I may not be able to “go home again,” but I can see it from here.) Thoreau's admonition to "Simplify, simplify..." comes to mind in the grocery ...
  

• Memoried ghosts on Tucker Ridge

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Oct 26
  Here's on old Journal story — in my family journal, and in "The" Journal, 20 years ago — with an update at the end. 1993 Well, my big brother is ...
  

• A Packed Pantry?

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Sep 19
  Actually, I wish I did have a pantry. I’d gladly swap most of my kitchen cabinets for an honest-to-goodness, old-timey walk-in pantry. When I was ...
  

• Salt of the Earth People

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Aug 22
  We have five seasons this year: Winter, spring, summer, fall – and campaign. With all the fuss and fury of “campaign season,” which will spread ...
  

• Fiddleheads and pissenlits

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 30
  “Spring has spring, the grass has rizz…” and the fiddleheads are pushing their tightly furled heads up through the stream banks. Nature times the ...
  

• The track makers

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Apr 02
  When March comes in like a lion, "they" say, it goes out like a lamb. I'm glad, either way, that it does go. I did, however, try to enjoy the ...
  

• The thousand trees

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Mar 05
  March came in like a lion this year. Let's hope she goes out like a lamb. In the meantime, the sap's running! For the maple trees, which need cold ...
  

• Comfort breakfast, Maine-style

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 01
  “When the days get longer, the cold gets stronger”: the oxymoron of winter in Maine, starting with the winter solstice on the 21st of December and ...
  

• Blue eggs & bacon

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jan 07
  Cheap eats. And eggs are a super food, health-wise, if they’re organic and truly free-range. We’ve all heard the “cholesterol” bad rap that has ...
  

• Morning Coffee with the Deer

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Dec 11
  Just got back from a couple of perfect-weather weeks with family in Florida. (November is Goldilocks weather in Florida: not too hot, not too ...
  

• “Haven” on Earth

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Nov 13
  I stumbled upon a cabin/cottage design online the other day. Designed and built by a Mainer, it boils "home" down to the essentials while remaining...
  

• Time for 'Talking Sticks?'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Oct 03
  From the time I was little, back when kids played “cowboys & Indians,” I always wanted to be the Indian. In the winter, instead of making snowmen, ...
  

• 'Beware the job...'

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Sep 03
  Thoreau wrote: "Beware the job that requires new clothes." When you ponder that point a bit, it makes a lot of sense. The job that dictates the ...
  

• The Cook-room Chamber

  By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Aug 06
  A gentle rain on the roof or rains pushed by howling winds puts me in the "cook-room chamber" mode, evoking a feeling of warm, cozy safeness, a ...