Living Life Beautifully

 It is so hot outside.  The deer are panting from the heat.  This morning I put out a second large metal tub full of water because I can't keep fresh drinkable water in the first one for more than a day or so. I'm feeling so much better now that I'm not on any bad medications.  I'm eating healthy. I just wish things weren't so overwhelming here.  I accept the fact that keeping two and a half acres of land and a 100 year old home is not going to be perfectly done.  I am fortunate I didn't get that super perfection gene from my mother's side of the family.  The paint of the house is falling off because there was no paint left on it when we moved it here.  When we painted it, the wood was damp from huge amounts of rain.  It would have taken 6 months to dry out.  Given the fact that we have never gone 6 months without rain, we went ahead and painted.  But now it has this lovely crackle finish, and this not so lovely, "fall off t...

  After a long day of work,  my husband is showered and putting in his invoices... with a little help from Maggie. I went thrift store shopping yesterday.  I love going through thrift stores.  The tea cups, in the back of the picture, will be made into  a craft for our booth at the farmers market.  I collect white dishes, so several of these things will go into my china cabinet.   This was my favorite find of the day.  So cute and very little damage to it.  I paid all of $3.00.   Lace I found at a church thrift shop.  Most of it has damage, so they weren't too expensive.   I end up cutting them to make crafts, so I don't mind.  Here are the purses I made on Tuesday.  If the weather holds up, it's not too windy, and my husband isn't too tired from the week..... these will be in the booth at the farmers market on Saturday. Father's day is on Sunday...

I was talking to my husband this morning about our life and asked him if he ever thought about how different things would be had we made different choices.  I asked him if he thought he might have been more successful had he married someone else, who pushed him in the right directions.   He probably would have had a modern home with a lot less maintenance.  He would have probably had two kids and a minimalist home with very little clutter. Then again...he might have married someone who didn't push him at all, had 10 kids, and lived with his parents because their home was so full of junk or they didn't have a home at all. It is amazing to think of how many small choices we might make in life that turn things in a totally different direction.  I wonder how many times I made a choice, said something, or even gave a look, that changed the course of my life and the life of my family.  I don't think I ever THINK about how something I might say, blog about,...

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