Spread the love Winter is ending in the Ozarks and the sure signs of spring have arrived. Daffodils are blooming in the fields and it is as though each bloom invites you to sigh with relaxation that spring is about pretty up the whole place. It’s a good thing, for we’re entering the next season of…
Daily Life with Sweetie
Autumn Vibes
Spread the love 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…
Sunday Moments: The Gift of Solitude
Spread the love 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…
Beauty and Blooms
Spread the love Do you love to see blooming flowers? A few weeks ago I hit saturation on how much diy renovation I could stand. Do you know that place? Nothing is going on the schedule I had in mind. Nothing is easy and everything’s price is going up? Was there. The local Atwood’s, a new…
I’m Hot in Oklahoma, How About You?
Spread the love 1 1ShareLet me tell you something about Sweetie. She doesn’t do hot. As in, this week it was 1001 degrees in the shade in Northeastern Oklahoma and Sweetie . Was. In. It. At an early age I knew that I couldn’t do hot weather well, I’m great in a storm of upset that’s hot,but…
Beginning a Cottage Courtyard Dream
Spread the love 1 1ShareWouldn’t it be marvelous if projects always had instant gratification moments? I love dreaming into reality a life I want to live. However most dreams are followed closely with a list of to-do’s to bring them to life. This week I cheated and bought myself some temporary outcomes, you know… store bought success….
Living Near Grand Lake of the Cherokees
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…
When Plans on Paper Begin to Materialize in the Garden
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…
Creating Compact Workspace
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,…
Where the road leads you
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…
