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Downsizing to doable

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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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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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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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