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ive you a complete picture of the house i soon remembered why i let the initial copy of the book go so easily from my shelves it was not a wrench to part with it i did read the follow up book and found it much easier going and more pleasurable reading than i found this initial book to be at april 16 2017 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest in my home this week let s go outdoors in my home this week i ve been busy outdoors the past few days it finally has warmed up nicely and i ve had my hands in the dirt potting up plants and when i m not outdoors i m looking on pinterest for ideas to use in my yard tis the season and all that i ve just asked john for more yard tools for my anniversary present and i seriously believe he s going to give them to me too i finally have convinced him that i d rather have what i want than another piece of jewelry not that i have a thing against jewelry as soon as i want something special i ll let him know not turning down diamonds or gold or pearls nope we spent our shabat traveling john had a deep desire to see isaac and josh he planned this weekend right after we got back from seeing taylor i carried a big slab of lasagna and half that chocolate cake i made two weeks ago and of course i packed a supper to eat on the way home we arrived just as they finished up the church egg hunt i love bess and sam s church they are a very friendly bunch of people and they love to open their doors to the community at large that s just what they did this weekend allowing community to come in and hunt eggs with their own children they fed them hot dogs after and had a very brief program by the children s minister and that was that it was a good time for children who might never hear it otherwise to hear the story of what we call easter continue at april 16 2017 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest home routines i thought about my home routines for most of last week i would like to add one item to my morning routine something that is absolutely key for me and it would be one of the first things i do shower and dress even if i am going to go outdoors to work in the hot sun even if i am going to be home all day long because i find that mornings when i schlep about in my night clothes i have to break up my morning to dress for the day mid way through a job or two and that means i might not get back to finish off something at granny s we weren t allowed so much as a drink of water much less come to the breakfast table unless we were fully dressed and ready for the day i m seeing more and more the wisdom of that rule of hers and i mean to incorporate it into my day right after i get out of bed open the window and throw back those covers i m headed to the shower i sat down last night before bed and set down my current routine and what i thought would work better for me i wrote out a zone list and realized i liked the principle of it just not the way i ve been doing them which was to focus all week long on that one area and then move to the next zone i came up with something and think it s just the answer to my need to add a spark to my routine housework once again i ve found that staying away from computer in the mornings is most helpful though i will go online on john s work mornings because i can run swagbuck videos at that time it s the only time i get to hit at those small earnings but i always stop running videos by 7am so it shouldn t be a problem to hold off on that continue at april 14 2017 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homemaking frugal friday making the best of it all saturday i had a miserable night thursday evening and was so disappointed when after sleeping but a half hour i awakened and laid there for the better part of an hour praying sleep would return well sometimes a change of scenery is the best thing i ve turned in bed and lay with my feet at the head and my head at the foot of the bed and sometimes that works nicely and sometimes it doesn t i decided last night to take myself off to the guest room while our room had felt warm ish the guest room was cool so much so that i not only pulled up the quilt on the bed i piled another one atop that one i slept very nicely until i heard john shift in his chair this morning at some point during the night he also couldn t sleep and so he sat in his recliner and covered himself up to sleep again it s cooler in the living room than our bedroom i ve no idea why this is so because during the majority of most days our bedroom is quite cool we had bagels for breakfast i have two left after making up a third to go into john s work lunch for tomorrow we ll eat those in the morning and i ll have nothing but the packets of yeast left to toss away i m taking the saltines to mama on monday she does not ever use yeast so no need of taking her that for the one who asked we do not have a food pantry nearby the few i do know of only accept cash or gift cards and no real foods the yeast is only about 49c at aldi so no big loss continue at april 14 2017 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest daily tasks i ve thought long and hard about this business of routines and about what i want to do in my home on a daily basis i have already shared my morning and evening routines some of the tasks on this daily list are included there i am not repeating them but merely showing that this is done daily there are not many tasks on my list of daily jobs this is because i hope to do some weekly and monthly jobs each day as well but these chores do allow my home to look polished even if i haven t done anything more i ve enjoyed reading about your routines for morning and evening that you ve shared one mentioned never going to bed with dirty dishes in the kitchen i followed flylady for years and i agree with this 100 but i discovered even with just two of us at home if i didn t put a stop time on kitchen work i d be doing it at bedtime too so for those last couple of items each evening i choose to set them in the kitchen and deal with them in the morning continue at april 13 2017 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homemaking morning and evening homemaking routines i said i ve been revamping my routines and that part is certainly true enough in fact i m still working on those cleaning charts i thought i d share my morning and evening routines these haven t changed much in the past few years but they are really what keep my home neat and nice and helps me to focus immediately on the bigger picture each day it s all little things that once done just make life simpler in a pinch doing a morning and evening routine can be the difference between a house that is pretty much company presentable and a disaster zone so if i am ill or not able to devote a full day to cleaning my home is still ready for hospitality morning un make the bed this sounds counter productive doesn t it there is a reason to do this i throw back the covers on the bed and let the sheets air this is ideally done for at least 1 hour i sometimes do make up the bed after 20 minutes and occasionally john sees the unmade bed and decides to make it himself but most mornings i let the bed air an hour this helps keep the sheets fresh all week long and it allows the bedding to completely dry in case of any dampness from perspiration during the night open the curtains opening the curtains each morning lets the sunshine pour into the house it is ideal to also open windows and let the house air for a few minutes this is a habit i mean to incorporate with my new routines however opening the curtains is a signal to my brain that the day is well begun there s something about those open blinds and curtains that makes me feel ready to face the work of the day continue at april 12 2017 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homemaking making do outdoor cushion renewal my old patio chair cushions were really showing wear last year they were faded and starting to fray in areas i d patched them in the past but this time i knew they really were done when the season was over so i planned to buy new ones however i was looking at the old cushions and it occurred to me to reuse the filler form and make new covers using an indoor outdoor table cloth i d purchased last year at aldi for 4 7 i think i d bought two meaning to use them as curtains on my front porch to block the sun but honesty they seemed a bit busy to have such a big space of pattern stretched out well there was the fabric i needed i had enough fabric to make four cushion covers and a small tablecloth for the café table on the back porch i used the old cover as a guide and the form as my pattern i allowed for 1 2 seam allowances on the cushions i positioned two of them so the front of the cushion was on the fold of the fabric but couldn t do all four that way continue at april 11 2017 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest in my home this week all i have in my home this week i am determined to once again give all my best to my main vocations that of making home productive and pleasant and nurturing my writing work here on the blog i ve been sailing along of late without any real plan or focus well this cannot go on i m enjoying life just fine but i m missing that deep satisfaction at day s end when i settle down to rest i am too conscious that i might have worked harder in the home i am bored with the content of my mind i have already spent too much of the day with games or in mindless pursuits and it s just not working for me this was most clearly brought home last friday when i had a hard talking to myself i d not slept well thursday night and that always makes it a bit harder for me to focus i spent the bulk of the early morning hours when i m normally most productive looking at what appeared to be an overwhelming number of tasks i played a round of games on the computer read emails gazed at the housework determined i really ought to do something and did nothing much for another hour or so eventually i just pulled myself up by my own bootstraps and got busy i forced my attention to stay focused on each job i laid my hand to instead of wandering aimlessly from this to that and finishing nothing in the end the overwhelming work and an onerous task took up the better part of the remaining morning hours but then i was done and it was but 11 30am i looked at the clock thought of what i might do for leisure then focused instead on making cushion covers for the porch chairs at 1pm i stopped for lunch and went back to work at 1 30 at 2 30pm i was all done and ran up a quick little café tablecloth in a spare five minutes then i headed to computer to work on blog post continue at april 09 2017 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest frugal friday in bloom saturday we were up early this morning and left the house early too this is not our typical shabat day we headed to the pawn shop sidewalk sale john has wanted to go for years but was never able to attend for one reason and another i heard the television ad tuesday and told john about it so off we went saturday morning which was a beautiful cool sort of morning we had to park about a block away i d no idea this was such a huge big deal but it apparently is we bought a pair of gardening gloves another old saw john bought two at the antiques mall just a week ago a few really good tools i found a 5 ft tall windmill to put in one of my flower beds we also bought an army cot which is for the grandchildren i could put two toddlers on the cot or 1 bigger grand child i was planning to buy a child sized cot but the idea of having them outgrow it didn t appeal to me we ll look for more but at least now i have one we came home and i made dinner here we bought a steak at aldi on friday i ve been experimenting with the aldi beef i really do like the butcher shop meat and the fresh market meats but the cost is really prohibitive on any cut but hamburger and chicken breasts bess had told me how much she likes the chuck roast i tried one a few weeks ago and was impressed with it s tenderness and how tasty it was i d like to have had a larger one but they just don t package them any larger so this week we bought the sirloin steak and a rump roast the sirloin weighted 1 3 4pounds that s big enough for four servings for us i cut the steak and put half in the freezer and cooked half it was really tender surprisingly so in my opinion continue at april 07 2017 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest eating on a tight budget april s basics challenge i pondered options for this month i could set a dollar amount and do as i ve done in the past three months making out a menu for two for 21 meals at that set point was one option frankly i ve proven to myself i can do it and i was ready for another challenge i looked over two wartime thrifty meal plans in vintage woman s day magazines and contemplated following one of those for a week though i wasn t sure it would be half so thrifty as it was considered then i do admit though that it s an intriguing idea despite the liberal use of liver sausage in one of the menus pretty sure john wasn t going to be on board with that i kept coming back to doing a basic ingredients challenge i d said once before that you could make just about anything with the same basic ingredients just by changing up the seasonings and adding in a few minor ingredients so this challenge is about basic items in the kitchen and creating a variety of meals from them in my scenario i m taking a chicken a bunch of celery a bag of carrots and a bag of onions and i m going to show how those same ingredients can be used in a variety of ways to make different meals now this is far more economical than you might think because while i m not limiting anyone to just one chicken or one bunch of celery etc several of the meals can be made from just that one chicken pot roasted chicken may not be something you commonly think of but i ve made this on more than one occasion you can do this in the crockpot or slow roast in the oven i leave the chicken whole and then chop some carrots onions and celery and place them around the chicken i have often added potato chunks and apple chunks to the pan and it s really delicious continue at april 06 2017 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels budgeting past post targeted clearance just a brief note lots of nasty weather in my area today we re fine so far just lots of thunder lightning and rain there are tornados to the south and far northeast of us wanted to thank you for prayers on behalf of grandson zach he is diagnosed with a common condition that is related to a viral infection not a bac...
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