Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

I keep running into articles that encourage simple living. I guess the repeated message means this is very important, for I remember that when mom told me to do something a certain number of times, I had better get moving. The article I just read, "The Ten Most Important Things to Simplify in Your Life," certainly summarizes the message I have received so redundantly. I am not sure I want to cut back on screen time, though. Soon I'll be out in the garden more and I will not have time to keep up with my blogs and read what others are thinking. One area of success is within our grasp: " if debt is holding you captive, reduce it." Baring the typical unforeseen crisis, we will have out debts relinquished before summer. I'm not sure if life will be that much simpler, but certainly easier in the financial realm.

Waste Not, Want Not, or something like that

I enjoy finding ways to recycle materials in fun and practical ways. The recent construction of additions to the church building next door has made available some interesting scrapped materials. I took some of the insulated Styrofoam building materials and made a cold frame by placing the old skylight from the torn down addition on top as a lid (see the accompanying picture of lettuce that will soon be harvested). The rest of the Styrofoam building material will become a temporary home for hardening off plants that I am growing indoors under lights. But, today those scraps became the building materials for a makeshift stable for my two little ponies (see grandchildren picture). What fun and how practical!

ravens

ravens
Originally uploaded by KelvinfromKS

The ravens in this photo are the sentinels of the rocks. They miss nothing.