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Some Simple Living Resources

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October Walk

We’re supposed to get snow in a couple of days, so we went walking nearby today, warm and sunny. Click on the image to see my photocollage larger… I’m so grateful to live in an incredibly beautiful place! Simple living to me always means focusing on the world around us! This article came from: October...

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Gotta Lose Weight!

A couple of years ago or so, I muttered to myself, “I gotta lose weight!” So in typical writerly style, I registered that as a website domain name: gottaloseweight.com. But I didn’t do a thing about it. Now, finally, I am losing weight and I am also working on the site. Writing is how I...

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The Small Scale Poultry Flock, by Harvey Ussery

The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers–With information on building soil fertility, replacing purchased feed, and working with poultry in the garden by Harvey Ussery, is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read on chickens. You might guess that from the title! I’ve had...

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Storing Garden Produce in a Small House

We finally had our first real frost. At 8,000 feet here in Colorado, our average date of the first frost is about 12 days ago. Every extra day has been precious, but this morning the outdoor thermometer said 28 and the leaves of many plants were drooping. I had done a good bit of harvesting...

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How to Repair a Very Old Sewing Machine

My sewing machine wouldn’t work. Well, it would after a fashion. I could sew a straight stitch backwards. That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind when I bought my Viking 6460… what, over 30 years ago? REALLY? You mean it’s an antique? What does that make ME? All those colors you see across the...

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Emergency Water Storage at Home: Download My Free E-Book Here

Here is the link to a free ebook I just wrote. It is titled: Emergency Water Storage at Home: Why, How, How Much Water, and at What Cost? It is a PDF file. If you just click on the link, it will open in a new tab or window. To download it to your computer,...

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Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, by Diane Ott Whealy

I recently read a fascinating account of the growth of the seed savers movement in the United States. Diane Ott Whealy, who wrote Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, is one of the founders of the Seed Savers Exchange, which you can go to at seedsavers.org. In one of the most beautifully created books I’ve...

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Sunshine Camp Revisited Because of the Internet

On the About Us page of this website, I mentioned in passing that my husband Kelly and I had lived at Sunshine Camp in Forestville, CA, in an intentional community with other family members. I don’t know why I happened to mention it, but that brief reference led to a fascinating communication. I do love...

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A Sense of Community from a Small Town Music Festival

This weekend the town where I live in Colorado had its 13th annual music festival. Going to the festival is one of my favorite ways to visit with people in the community that I may not see much of. When I first got to the festival on Saturday morning, I had a nice long chat...

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