Kitchen / Garden / Sanctuary - Urban Homesteading to Nourish Body + Spirit
This is random, but I thought I’d show you Liz’s breakfast. She loves it. It’s organic honeydew and cantaloupe (her favorite fruit), and raw turkey food that I make in batches and freeze into individual portions. Pretty good start to the day, no?
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~ I’m once again joining Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots in her Gratitude Sunday tradition. ~
Gratitude Sunday is a time to slow down and remember those thankful moments that graced our week. One reason I love keeping a daily gratitude journal is because it helps keep things in perspective for me. Each Sunday, I open my journal and share some of those moments with you here. If you’d like to join in, just leave a comment!
Gratitude is powerful energy. I love hearing others’ gratitudes!
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– I’m so grateful to be at our new house! I just love it. Love it!!!
– For the internet connection that F has magically been able to cobble together for me. They don’t hook up our phone or internet for another couple days, so I’ve been really appreciating the internet when I have it, especially for the time-sensitive moneymaking work I needed to get out. Thank you honey!!!
– And also, for the time unplugged. It’s been peaceful without the phone ringing (though I’ll really appreciate it when we have it), and also a welcome break from the ‘net.
– Transforming terrible, tasteless fruit into something delicious, simply by cooking it. It always amazes me.
– Cooking everything in the solar oven since we’ve moved in! Cookies, quinoa, plums, peaches, lentils, an egg, more quinoa, tea, garlic rosemary potatoes, and a steak (which we’ll have to try again, since the clouds rolled in).
– Gardening at dusk with the crickets and cicadas. How peaceful.
– That F knew just what to do to troubleshoot the hot water heater when it stopped working! I love how we each have our own areas of expertise, and putting our brains together, we can pretty much tackle anything.
– Our beautiful new kitchen. It’s such a pleasure to work in.
– The Olympics!! I love watching the Olympics!!!
– Being moved in. It was a lot of effort and thought and energy output to move. I’m really glad it’s over and we’re getting settled now. Things are still feeling messy and chaotic (except the kitchen — that was the first priority), but soon it’ll be much better.
– Having our own private outdoor space. Ahhhhhh… it feels so so sooo good.
– Tea in the garden.
– Moonlight flooding in the big southside windows.
– Setting up our home! What fun!
– My sweet little kitty companion, who kindly supervises my moneymaking work.
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How have you felt blessed this past week?
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At our new house
Could it be true?! My spirit is absolutely dancing for joy that we are only a couple days away from having a beautiful house, yard, and my gardens!!!!
Above is the room that will be my new studio… I love the East light that floods in. Perfect for morning tea (from an antique creamer on this particular morning, since everything else is packed).
Our apartment is pretty much all packed up… and I’ve spent the last couple nights at our new house, staying with my kitty (she comes with the house!), and Mom and I have been cleaning together like crazy women during the day. Mom and dad really like their new place, even though it is a bit of a shocking ‘downsize’! They’ve been there for a couple nights already.
Talk to you in a few days, after we move!
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Different from a to-do list, a manifesto is the ‘long view.’ It reminds me of my priorities at present.
And rather than a lengthy list, I feel that simpler is better.
If you wrote a Summertime Manifesto, what would it say?
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Mine says:
– Slow. It. Down…
– Do more art.
– Above all, simplicity.
– Lie down more.
– Body first. Give it the chance to heal.
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I’m humbled that a groovy new website, BonbonBreak.com, asked me to be a post contributor. My Bugbath post is featured in the Backyard section of their website this week.
Check it out; it’s a neat place, and there are so many articles there I want to read!
A little bit about it:
Here at Bonbon Break our mission is twofold; To introduce blogs that are extra special, in an easy and fun format for busy moms looking for a moment to themselves; And, to provide a place for bloggers to showcase their material in a way that respects and honors their individual sites, creative rights and content.
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