Comments on: About This Blog (And About Me) FAQ http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Julie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-101347 Julie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-101347 What a wonderful website - totally inspiring! What a wonderful website – totally inspiring!

]]> By: steve http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-86238 steve http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-86238 I found the article on the year without a summer (1816) interesting . A 7th generation grandfather (Philip Long) was a mail courier in Canada and had a farm (outpost) at Lake Temiscouata in northwest New Brunswick. That year he had to request help from the Provincial Governor due to crop failure as they had frost every month and snow on June 7th. I found the article on the year without a summer (1816) interesting . A 7th generation grandfather (Philip Long) was a mail courier in Canada and had a farm (outpost) at Lake Temiscouata in northwest New Brunswick. That year he had to request help from the Provincial Governor due to crop failure as they had frost every month and snow on June 7th.

]]> By: Molly http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-79994 Molly http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-79994 I have been reading your blog with much interest. We have a lot in common - living in the boonies, a wood burning cookstove in the kitchen and a soy allergy!! I want to mention that the anesthetic of choice in hospitals is soy-based. Be very vocal with the anesthesiologist and wear some kind of allergy-alert jewelry in case you are brought unconscious to an emergency room. Thanks for your wonderful thoughts and taking the time to keep the blog up. Best wishes, Molly I have been reading your blog with much interest. We have a lot in common – living in the boonies, a wood burning cookstove in the kitchen and a soy allergy!! I want to mention that the anesthetic of choice in hospitals is soy-based. Be very vocal with the anesthesiologist and wear some kind of allergy-alert jewelry in case you are brought unconscious to an emergency room.
Thanks for your wonderful thoughts and taking the time to keep the blog up.
Best wishes, Molly

]]> By: Christine http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-77752 Christine http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-77752 Thank you so much for posting the section on starting hostas from seed. I am going to give it try this winter and with any luck will produce some amazing hostas. I have been reading your blog now for over a year and it has inspired me to get back to the simpler things in life. I look forward to rising each day to tend my gardens without any other care in the world. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being you and for taking the time to share everything that you do. Kindest regards, Christine Thank you so much for posting the section on starting hostas from seed. I am going to give it try this winter and with any luck will produce some amazing hostas. I have been reading your blog now for over a year and it has inspired me to get back to the simpler things in life. I look forward to rising each day to tend my gardens without any other care in the world. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being you and for taking the time to share everything that you do.

Kindest regards,
Christine

]]> By: Jeff http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-74169 Jeff http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-74169 First may I say you are a joy to read. I have been looking for some "old" ideas to remind me that there are some real things left,simple things, that can restore us despite all the problems brewing all around us. My wife and I have a small farm in rural virginia and we are energy concious and frugal just like you. I would love to have a wood fired oven like you but I would be concerned in the summer time with the room becoming too hot. My wife would be the one that sweats in the kitchen but I'm looking out for her.LOL I would consider building a kitchen out of the house with some of the timber on the land.In Williamsburg a lot of the old buildings have the kitchen behind the house. In the winter the stove wwould be real nice in the kitchen. I love baking bread and a wwoodfired oven would be the tops. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!!Jeff First may I say you are a joy to read. I have been looking for some “old” ideas to remind me that there are some real things left,simple things, that can restore us despite all the problems brewing all around us. My wife and I have a small farm in rural virginia and we are energy concious and frugal just like you. I would love to have a wood fired oven like you but I would be concerned in the summer time with the room becoming too hot. My wife would be the one that sweats in the kitchen but I’m looking out for her.LOL I would consider building a kitchen out of the house with some of the timber on the land.In Williamsburg a lot of the old buildings have the kitchen behind the house. In the winter the stove wwould be real nice in the kitchen. I love baking bread and a wwoodfired oven would be the tops. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!!Jeff

]]> By: Bobbi http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-72431 Bobbi http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-72431 Dear Shirley, I found your website today, looking for a wood burning oven/stove. I am getting "all my ducks in a row" to build a house which will be self-sufficient. You are an inspiration. Thank you for taking the time to share. Thankful, Bobbi Dear Shirley,

I found your website today, looking for a wood burning oven/stove.
I am getting “all my ducks in a row” to build a house which will be self-sufficient.

You are an inspiration. Thank you for taking the time to share.

Thankful,
Bobbi

]]> By: Diana http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-77167 Diana http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-77167 I just wanted to send you a quick note to THANK YOU for your wonderful website!!! I found it about 10 min. ago and I am thrilled! I try to live a balanced simple life full of joy and contentment. I have been searching for blogs and websites of this nature and I have found them few and far between. I am so excited to read the archived articles on here in the days and weeks ahead. :) Live simple. Live Happy :) I just wanted to send you a quick note to THANK YOU for your wonderful website!!! I found it about 10 min. ago and I am thrilled! I try to live a balanced simple life full of joy and contentment. I have been searching for blogs and websites of this nature and I have found them few and far between. I am so excited to read the archived articles on here in the days and weeks ahead. :) Live simple. Live Happy :)

]]> By: Michele http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-66457 Michele http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-66457 My garden is just being established and I stumbled across your site and would love to be able to use it to help me (a very visual person) set up a place of peace and beauty to offset my very busy life. Perhaps one day I too will become voluntarily simple in my life style. thank you for sharing. My garden is just being established and I stumbled across your site and would love to be able to use it to help me (a very visual person) set up a place of peace and beauty to offset my very busy life. Perhaps one day I too will become voluntarily simple in my life style.

thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Joyce http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-60655 Joyce http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-60655 Found your blog when looking up some plant info on hens and chicks, which I have grown forever but recently killed! Love you style of writing and how similar our interests seem to be. Thanks for sharing your life here! Found your blog when looking up some plant info on hens and chicks, which I have grown forever but recently killed! Love you style of writing and how similar our interests seem to be. Thanks for sharing your life here!

]]> By: Mary http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-58703 Mary http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/about-this-blog/#comment-58703 I found your site because of your entry on day lilies. I really enjoy your accounts of a simple lifestyle. I don't live nearly as simple a lifestyle, but I recently made a job change to pare down my work hours and leave time for taking graduate classes, as well as eating a nice dinner at home with my family. Thank you for talking about all of the changes you have made. Your writing is inspiring. I found your site because of your entry on day lilies. I really enjoy your accounts of a simple lifestyle. I don’t live nearly as simple a lifestyle, but I recently made a job change to pare down my work hours and leave time for taking graduate classes, as well as eating a nice dinner at home with my family. Thank you for talking about all of the changes you have made. Your writing is inspiring.

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