Small House Living

Take Action Tuesday

Monday was the pity party, Tuesday was for taking action. Yesterday was the day I segmented my life at Our Little House into things I can do things about and the things that I...

Overwhelmed

I have been feeling especially helpless and hopeless here at Our Little House lately and after speaking with many of my friends, they are feeling the same way. A lot of it has to...

A Time Capsule Found in a Little House

I read this article out of the U.K. about a man who found a letter from 1936 hidden behind the paneling of his home. You might remember, that I wrote a post last December...

The Original Tea Party

One of the things I find completely charming here in the Ozarks where Our Little House is located, is the good old southern tea parties. One of the women holds these about twice a...

Coming, Going and Being Counted

Thursday was an extremely busy day at Our Little House. I had a lot of writing work to do and I had forgotten that Buddy, our foster Beagle, we adopted out a few weeks...

It Takes a Village

Some of you have emailed me to ask what we do with the Fearsome Four when we go out of town? Well, since we have rescues that have various fears, we don’t like putting...

You can go Home Again

Wow! Thank you to everyone who participated in the comments on raising your own chickens. Marty is the winner of the book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raising Chickens,” but even if you didn’t...

Raising Chickens

If there is a cold, hard winter, the insects die and don’t’ come back in the summer as bad That wives’ tale isn’t true. We had the coldest, snowiest winter here yet and the...