My mother used to tell me that whatever someone does on New Year’s day is what one will be doing all year. In deference to that, I am writing in my blog today. I hope that will prompt me to write here more often! As I was reading through many posts this morning as IContinue reading “HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
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MY WISH FOR THE FUTURE
After recently reading a post on “oldfashionmama”‘s blog, I started to think about how my childhood days are not that much different from the way she’s raising her family. I was born in 1943, so my childhood was in the 40’s and 50’s. I grew up on a mid-Missouri farm, the oldest of three children.Continue reading “MY WISH FOR THE FUTURE”
FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON
It’s November 15 and I awoke to the first snow of the season in mid-Missouri. If you have followed me for a while, you know I am not a fan of winter. However, as snows go, this was the perfect snow. It was a wet snow so all the trees, fences, and powerlines were paintedContinue reading “FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON”
NEXT SEASON PLANS
September and October have flown by!! In September I was busy harvesting and preserving crops from the garden and then I got Covid! That put a stop to everything! By the time I felt better, Mid-Missouri had experienced a hard freeze and my time was taken up with preparing the garden (including the water barrels)Continue reading “NEXT SEASON PLANS”
MY HAPPY SPACE
It’s a beautiful day. There’s a feeling of fall in the air in Mid-Missouri! I love fall: the beautiful foliage, the crispness of the air, the ending days of harvest. There’s only one thing wrong with fall — winter is not far behind! So I approach fall with very mixed emotions. Before I write more,Continue reading “MY HAPPY SPACE”
DROUGHT AND CONSERVATION
I knew last spring when I was complaining about the incessant rain that by the middle of summer I would be wishing for rain. It’s not quite the middle of summer and this area is having a drought. We were fortunate to have had one inch of rain last weekend, but conditions are dry enoughContinue reading “DROUGHT AND CONSERVATION”
GARDEN ECOLOGY
I have been so excited about my garden lately that I have failed to write much about being ecological and frugal. While my garden is both of those things, I think I need to put more of an emphasis on the how it is both, and also what other things I am doing that meetContinue reading “GARDEN ECOLOGY”
WELL HELLOOOO, SUMMER!
As many of you know, I am an old lady that bought her small (832 sq. ft.) home May, 2021. This is the first home I have owned in a long time. Last fall I paid someone to till up a garden space from part of my lawn. This spring when I should have beenContinue reading “WELL HELLOOOO, SUMMER!”
Harvesting Food
I have gone from wishing the rain would leave for awhile to now having more to do in one day than I can get done. It’s a wonderful feeling!! I am getting to harvest some food from my garden!! And it feels great! My raised bed of strawberries are producing big, fat, juicy, sweet berries!Continue reading “Harvesting Food”
Lessons to Apply to Current Affairs
If there ever was a time to be as self-sufficient as possible, that time is now. With extreme shortages of baby formula, grocery store shelves often bare and inflation steadily climbing we need to do for ourselves as much as possible. My mother and grandmother made it through the Great Depression by buying locally andContinue reading “Lessons to Apply to Current Affairs”
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