Posts in the “Voluntary Simplicity” Category
- When We Stop Stuffing the World with Things
- How To Boil a Potato Perfectly, Circa 1880
- Our Search For a Firewood Source Continues…
- Sometimes It Takes a Closer Look
- A Quick & Easy Yogurt Ice Cream
- There Was a Package in Our Mailbox Today
- Are You Tired of the Noise?
- But of Little Things…
- How I Make “Real” Potato Chips
- It’s Been a Long Time Coming…
- A Very, Very Pasta Filled Day
- Shining Stainless Steel with Flour !?!
- You Must First Be Who You Really Are
- Make Your Own Citrus-Scented Disinfectant Spray
- How I Make Oven Baked Potato Chips
- Reactions, Recalls, and a Red Fox Move
- Easy To Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
- A Really Good Veggie Burger
- There is a Place That YOU Are to Fill…
- What Do Hostas Look Like When They First Come Up in the Spring?
- But I Think an Intangible Something Has Been Lost
- How To Roast Garlic
- Growing Hollyhocks from Seed
- Can Credit Cards Be Used Responsibly?
- My Blanchard Butter Mold
- Involuntary Tunnel Vision?
- Many People Will Walk In and Out of Your Life…
- Three Pans of Potato Rolls
- Arsenic in Rice — How Concerned Are You?
- A Matter for Each Individual to Settle for Himself
- An Almost Effortless Way to Wash Dishes
- An Almost Effortless Way To Clean Oven Racks
- Some Thoughts on Staying Home
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea…
- And Sure Enough, It Was
- White-Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
- It’s Time For Some More Vibrant Hollyhock Colors
- Super Delicious No-Butter Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
- Short Growing Seasons & Saving Seeds
- Why Mark Shields Never Looked So Good!
- An Unintentional Collection
- I’m Knitting Slippers
- Two Resolutions That Can Change Your Life
- “Our Personal Story” Category
- When Christmas Isn’t So Merry
- They May Forget What You Said…
- It’s So Cold Out There!
- Just Passing Through… We Hope!
- A Recipe for a Natural Cough Syrup
- 7 Grocery Shopping Strategies That Work For Me
- The Wood-Burning Cook Stove In My Kitchen
- How Much Does a “Nutritious Diet” Cost These Days?
- This Really Makes Me Angry
- The Definition of Success
- Our Other Favorite Banana Nut Bread
- Our Favorite Peanut Butter Cookies
- When You Give The Gift Of A Smile
- Things I Have Learned About Cooking & Baking with a Wood Stove
- Just Because They’re Not on Your Road…
- How Do You Suppose THAT Happened?
- Because… Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Does Frugality Mean You Shouldn’t Have Nice Things?
- How Do You Get Things Done?
- The “Something” That Has Been Eating Our Cucumbers
- How To Make Compost in a Garbage Can
- There’s a Pig in Our Garden
- Being Sensible About Frugality
- Rethinking Multitasking & The Myth of Quality Time
- A Life Worth Saving
- How We Make Leaf Mold
- It’s a Big, Big World
- What Do Bleeding Heart Seeds Look Like?
- Some Thoughts About Staying Motivated
- My One Piece Long-Handled Spoons
- Learning How To Eat Again When You Have A Soy Allergy
- How To Grow Jack-in-the-Pulpit From Seeds
- Do Hostas Seed Themselves?
- My Surprise Streaked Hosta Seedlings
- With An Open And Grateful Heart
- What Is A Home?
- About This Blog (And About Me) FAQ
- The Realization of How Much You Already Have
- Some Thoughts on Accepting Personal Responsibility
- Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
- It Was an Accident
- The Potential to Turn a Life Around
- Sometimes You Should Complain
- How I Divide A Hosta
- Homemade Laundry Detergent — Yes Or No?
- Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia)
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- Removing An Enormous Tree Stump: How We Saved $576
- “Eighteen Hundred and Starve to Death”
- Hosta ‘June’ And Its Seedling
- Growing Hostas From Seed
- Red Trillium (Trillium erectum)
- Hostas I Have Grown From Seed
- Can You Trust Allergen Labeling?
- Why I Avoid Soy
- How To Harvest Hosta Seeds
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