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Living Near Grand Lake of the Cherokees

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Spread the love     Waterways and rivers have always called to me. I grew up watching the DeGray State Park dam being built in Arkansas. It was a magical thing as a child to see the land transform into a large lake. To see the big equipment, people and hardhats in such a vast space was awing…

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When Plans on Paper Begin to Materialize in the Garden

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Spread the love 1   1ShareDo you love blooming things? I love flowers and fruit and all the work of blooming things in the garden. Blooming things say to me there’s a harvest coming. The beauty of flowers brings delight to my heart, whether it’s giving, arranging at home, or seeing them outside our cottage When we moved…

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DIY Projects: Our Reality Versus Media TV

Downsizing to doable, Redbird Cottage Renovations

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Spread the love     We are surely beginning our third summer in Redbird Cottage in July. That means that we have done the majority of hard things, e.g. wiring, a new roof, floor joists,new windows, new doors, new plumbing, fresh hardie board siding and walls. Yes, remember, we moved in without floors you could walk on in…

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Sunday Morning Moments

Feeding My Soul, Sunday Moments

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Spread the love     Sunday mornings are a favorite time of the week for me. It’s a slower pace than most mornings and somehow Sunday invites luxurious choices…quieter early morning walks in the garden, savouring coffee a moment longer, dressing a bit more carefully for worship, or if worshipping at home, choosing a favorite outfit for the…

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Traveling Backroads Relaxes Me

Feeding My Soul, Rural Life

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Spread the love 1   1ShareDo you love to escape to the outdoors? It’s a direct path to refreshing my soul. I grew up in rural places and that meant there were stories to see everywhere. In my new home state there are new stories to learn as I drive. Stories of native hearts who trodded hundreds of…

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What Dinner Means to Me

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Spread the love     Early Years Growing up in rural Arkansas, there were three things I could set the clocks by at home long before I understood time on a clock. Breakfast, lunch and dinner meals divided my days. Family meals were a daily part of our home life. My father, a country doctor, sat with us…

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Creating Compact Workspace

Daily Life with Sweetie, Downsizing to doable

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Spread the love     Does your home support your needs? One of the choices we faced when downsizing was the reality of much less space to support our lives inside the cottage. We had consistently downsized from a family home Then to our more modern new home when we first arrived in Oklahoma To our little cottage,…

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Beginning a New Garden

Rural Life

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Spread the love      Have you moved to a new space? Three years ago we moved to our small acreage and began all new growing spaces. . We have several sunny spots, but there had been no garden areas. We are novices at gardening but we love learning. It delights me to watch it grow. To…

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Where the road leads you

Daily Life with Sweetie, Feeding My Soul

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Spread the love     My life has many journeys. A high creative who is high energy married to a Feller who has lived all over the world in war zones lends itself to living in the moment where ever you are. Each of us has ways of living that feed our soul. What is yours? Mine is…

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So good to have you here! The Redbird Cottage is a real place in the Ozarks of Oklahoma. A hundred plus year old original structure it lived on a farm about 17 miles from its current location. These posts are the stories of daily life as we downsize to doable in the Ozarks. Read More…

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Autumn Vibes

Weekends are about family time for Les and I. Friday night date night, Saturday morning bumming around and a slower pace. This week we enjoyed going to Grove, Oklahoma for their farmer’s market. We ran into a school friend of Fellers, Russell Horton. He’s a local farmer, his produce has been a favorite since I…

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Summer changes and growth

Renovations done by the family in a cottage are not for the faint of heart. The televeision shows spend sixty minutes showing you what 1000 hours cannot accomplish by an owner doing it themselves. Thankfully, we didn’t expect our experience to be a HGTV one. My last table in the yard could fit 24 bodies…this…

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Sunday Moments: The Gift of Solitude

When my father remarried after my mom’s death, a self-made lady came into our lives. She was self-taught, formal education was not valued by her father for his daughters. So she worked and owned businesses at a young age and later travelled the world with her then husband, studied history art and literature and continued…

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