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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So far my experiment at regrowing veggies has been a success. The green onions are doing great as you can see and because they are in the kitchen instead of in the garden, I seem to remember to use them.  The avocado pits are doing well,  They rooted much faster when I put them in a dark cabinet than when I had them out in the open. The plants in the white bowls from left to right are romaine lettuce, leaf lettuce, and celery.  It was so easy getting them started and they are doing great.  Now I need to get them outside into pots.  The leaf lettuce has only been sitting in the water for a day or so, that's why you can't see much going on in the picture, but it already has little sprouts growing.  I didn't know if leaf lettuce would work since it was not on the list of plants you can regrow online, but I thought it was worth a try. The tomato plant is from a friend.  I'm waiting for it to get large enough to plant outside. ...

I ran into some very nice people at the doctors office while waiting to have some bloodwork done. We got to talking about the house we moved.  I gave her my card and told her I would post some photos on my blog.  So.... here we go.  This is all you could see of the front porch of the house before we cleared the trees.  The house had been vacant for approx 20 years and was used by the San Antonio SWAT for practice one day, causing all windows, doors and some floors and wall to be destroyed. The house was built in 1907 by my great grandparents on my mothers side and was then sold to my grandparents until they moved shortly after the death of my great grandmother. After that it was rented for a very short amount of time and then left vacant. My grandmother and most of her siblings were born in the house. I believe even some of my aunts and uncles were also born there.                 ...