On Aging with Grace
When getting older is hard, just remember we can choose to be miserable or see it’s blessings.
Dreams do come true.
Dreams do come true a second time, and more. I had dreams . . . vivid but hazey around the edges. (That’s because I was young and wasn’t sure what they meant.) They weren’t sleep dreams, or day dreams but a longing in my heart driving me to act on things that sustained my dream….
Healing for the New Year
Healing When I posted this picture, my niece recognized it as an aloe and said “We could all use some healing.” It’s been a year of losses; loved ones/relationships, familiar patterns and health. Once again we’ve said goodbye to family and friends we love. We’ve struggled with health issues and tough decisions. But more than…
Home Biz- What does it mean?
Home Biz- What is that? We started this adventure, this “home biz” quest, many years ago with our own hands and our own dreams. What does it mean to “work at home”? When people ask me what I do, and I tell them I work at home, they usually ask, “but, what do you do?”…
Forcing Blooms Indoors
Forcing blooms from fruit tree prunings is a simple and magical way to anticipate Spring. Forcing Blooms It’s still winter cold out- best time to prune the fruit trees, and that means time for forcing blooms indoors. Those delicate pink blossoms will chase away any winter blues in a hurry. In our desert, the budding fruit…
Urban Farming or Just Common Sense
Today I listened to The Rise of Urban Homesteading on KUER radio, and it caused me to revisit my own reasons for gardening and keeping chickens. My grandparents gardened for survival, but I’m sure that I garden for sanity. I know the grocery store like the back of my hand; five of them in the…
Defender of the Hen-Pecked!!
I love to work outside, and today I was cleaning up the chicken coop; scrubbing out their waterer, when my little Chickie-Dee decided to hang out in the garden with me. The other chickens don’t like her, so she is not welcome in the flock. That means she and I spend a lot of time…