Check out the moveable chicken house that John designed and built for our chickens! It has wheels at one end so that it can be moved around each day. There’s a built-in feeder, a roost, and four nesting boxes, and the structure is big enough to house half a dozen chickens. You can see...
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Lately we’ve been having all our grown kids over for lunch on Sunday after church. Sometimes we eat outside, and now that the weather is getting warm, I’ve been reminded of just how hot our little back patio and deck area can be on a sunny day. Our long-term hope is to someday cover...
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The Nuffins gluten-free giveaway winner is Linda, commenter #40. ~~~~ I’m still in the thrall of my great winter restlessness which so far has netted me a very clean closet and a new coat rack in the entryway. Yesterday I decided that NOW was the time to finally get rid of my little girls’...
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Two weeks of driver’s ed left and I’m barely surviving the early-morning waking. I washed my hair FOUR times with shampoo and ‘conditioner’ before realizing that what I’d actually bought was two bottles of shampoo and zero conditioner. No wonder my hair has been fly-away lately. I also realized I haven’t shared final pictures...
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I’m not sure what exactly inspired me, today, to clean out my entire walk-in closet. I threw a bunch of my old junk away, put a bunch of old albums in storage bins in the garage, vacuumed, and then cleared one whole side of the closet so I could shove one of our dressers...
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I’m excited to show you a really fun project that I did last week. We have a short wall that divides our front entry from our living room. For years I just hung a few pictures there and called it good. I’ve also wished for awhile that I had an easy solution for guest’s...
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Does your child need to make Valentines for a passel of friends sometime in the next few weeks? Here are some ideas I’ve rounded up that look easy and creative. Click on the picture to go to the blog from which each idea came. Then add the needed items to your grocery list this...
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I’ve been doing my annual January declutter lately. The boys and I spent a couple hours one day digging out their long low attic closet in which still resided treasures from Eldest’s childhood. We bagged up what she’d want to sort herself, threw away lots of things we knew no one would want, and...
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We built our house back in 1993, and many years of hard use by many people has left it showing its age. Here’s a picture of part of the cabinets in the girls’ bathroom to give you an idea of how we began. Nothing terrible, but definitely tired-looking. Not long ago I saw an...
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I’ve been having a lovely time sewing pot-holders this week! Here are some of the colors I’ve made. Can you think of folks who’d like something along these lines as a Christmas gift? If so, check out the ones I put on my Etsy shop. They’re not too hard to make, but I know...
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