Living Large In Our Little House

Molly, giv­ing Dale one of her famous kissies

The tell tale signs were all there: The cough­ing, heav­ing, wheezing.

I tried to ignore them. After hav­ing pets all of my life, I knew deep down that it wasn’t aller­gies or a cold.

Last week, our (approx­i­mately) 8-year-old red Dachshund, Molly, was diag­nosed with an enlarged heart.

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Winter clothes out, sum­mer clothes in

This week has all about organizing.

Well, in between the numer­ous tor­nado warn­ings (we are fine).

I have never been the great­est orga­nizer and although liv­ing in Our Little House demands bet­ter orga­niz­ing, it just isn’t happening.

Maybe it is too many years of hav­ing a larger house that had numer­ous places to throw things, such as an empty bed­room, stairs and a larger kitchen table.

At any rate, Our Little House, as well as The Belle Writer’s Studio, had become a dis­as­ter since my last sea­sonal cleaning.

Mail clut­tered the kitchen table, my table I set up in the stu­dio for taxes took over­flow and books were stacked on every avail­able surface.

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Spring arrived at Our Little House last week and just in time to put me in the mood for gardening.

A cou­ple of weeks ago, I started see­ing a tele­vi­sion com­mer­cial for the “Home Farming Movement,” but I kept for­get­ting to look at the web­site, until this weekend.

Turns out, it is a mar­ket­ing gim­mick by Triscuit crack­ers, but the site still has some very use­ful infor­ma­tion and they have declared today Home Farming Day.

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Life IS Good at Our Little House

I finally got in the mood to dec­o­rate my walls in Our Little House. I guess after liv­ing here full time for over three years, it’s about time.

Like I told a friend of mine, no one can ever accuse me of dec­o­rat­ing on a whim!

I’m not com­fort­able with dec­o­rat­ing any­way and I think one of the things that intim­i­dated me about dec­o­rat­ing such a small space was the fear of clut­ter­ing the walls and over­whelm­ing the space.

I had three hang­ings I had put up when we built Our Little House, all cute things, albeit small, that went with the cabin feel theme.

We received a cou­ple of things for my birth­day and Christmas, so my prob­lem moved from being afraid of buy­ing things too big for the space, to where to hang them.

I also bought the “Life is Good” sign while in Branson for Dale’s birth­day. It’s my motto and I thought a great thing to see every­day, just to remind us.

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