Hurricanes are never welcome, but we can turn inconveniences into good family memories. It all depends on what we prepare for. Turn complaints into thankfulness and let your imagination create fun games, stories, and contests with any work that may need to be done. It’s super easy and fairly inexpensive to prepare. Get started with these helpful ideas and recipes for you and your family. Before I share what worked for us and how we used our imaginations for solutions, this article is for recovery for minor damages and inconveniences. Category one hurricanes are fairly easy to navigate in comparison to the more “serious” hurricanes where lives, livelihood, and loss…
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The top 7 Vegetables to Grow in the Fall and Where to Buy Them
Sweet carrots, broccoli that keeps on giving, tender round green beans, mustard that springs up year after year, Italian green beans that add comfort to stews,…..they feel like old friends. I can’t wait for September to get here and I can plant these veggies for my Fall garden here in central Florida. Those first garden filled seasons many years ago were one experiment after another. I had to learn by trial and error which varieties were best and how to care for them. I love experiments. Especially if they work! But sometimes they don’t. Green beans that earn their name, “string” beans, can be so fibrous you won’t want them,…
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What is the Best Book to Help with Simple Living?
“When it comes to what we writers do……we are like beggars who try to show other beggars where we found bread.” David Brooks (quoting D.T. Niles) The Second Mountain pg. XXX introduction Simple Living: The search for the best book. There’s good ones, and some are not so good. I love it when an author shares nuggets of wisdom. Sometimes, a good book will go on a bookshelf and will be read again. I have one that I have read at least four times. Every time I read it, it applies to my life in a different way because I’m in a different place in my life journey. I love…
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Why You Need a Simple School Schedule With NO Regrets
When my premie neared the age of deciding what we were going to do about school, I knew it wasn’t a matter of where he would be going. He was not nearly ready for formal education. Back in the 80s, in a small town, I was afraid this child of mine would be put in a “dumb” class, be labeled, and then, he would carry that stigma with him for the rest of his life. Isn’t that awful? I had no reason to think otherwise- that’s how it was when I went to school, back in the 60s and 70s. Simple living for our family. One day, I happened to…
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What to Do With All That Wonderful Papaya
The Dilemma It began as an unplanned surprise gift that came out of a compost pile. It went from “what is that?” to blessing me with an incredible amount of fruit. In fact, there was so many that I couldn’t keep up with the bounty. I had a dilemma! I began giving away papaya. At least, I tried. I’m pretty sure my take on papaya being wonderful is not shared by everyone. It’s an acquired taste for sub-tropical and tropical tastebuds only! There were not many takers. I admit I left a couple on a neighbor’s doorstep when they weren’t home! What was I going to do with all that…
