The Time the Housekeeper Came to Clean
I faced a truth about myself a long time ago. I’m not the world’s best housekeeper. Despite having chores around my mom’s house from the time I was old enough to remember...
Small House Living
We Could use a Lot of Rain
This past weekend when my father in-law was visiting from the Lake of the Ozarks, he noted that many of our trees here are already shedding leaves as if it is fall. Indeed,...
Summer Reading List
The dog days of summer are here. It was 104 degrees here on Monday and today, they say it will reach above 105. In these kinds of temperatures, it’s even too hot to go...
Regretting the Day the Squirrel Came to Live in our Yard
I thought of a few different titles for this post: Never say, “never.” It’s Us or Them. The One True Downside to Living in the Country. In the end, I went...
The Sights, Sounds and Smells of Summer at Our Little House
The other morning, I put on my new $2 flip-flops I bought for watering, turned on the garden hose and got more than water flowing. When the water spurted out, that smell that...
Paying it Forward Tiny House Project
Today, we have a guest post from Mark Brumbill, a teacher in Georgia, who, as of July 3, will be officially homeless as his mortgage company forecloses on his home. Mark has a great...
Crazy Dog Lady Chronicles
Several weeks ago, while taking Abbi to one of her many vet appointments since she came to live with us, I couldn’t help but notice a man signing the release to have the...
What Guests can Teach us at Our Little House
We had a great weekend this past weekend as my friend, and Living Large community member, Kathleen Winn, paid us a visit. Entertaining in a tiny/small home is always a challenge – especially when...
