Living Large In Our Little House

It’s that time of year again at Our Little House. I’m not talk­ing about the time to have the wood burn­ing stove checked or wrap­ping up the garden.

It’s that time of year when direct mail cat­a­log com­pa­nies start mail­ing out all of those fall cat­a­log, hop­ing you will want to start plan­ning all of those gifts you’re going to buy for the holidays.

They started arriv­ing about a month ago.

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This past week has me think­ing a lot about friend­ship. There are many ben­e­fits to liv­ing the lifestyle we do at Our Little House, but I think one of the most unex­pected is that it has helped me in har­mony with those in my life.

When I was younger, I didn’t value my friend­ships as I should. I know in some cases I wasn’t as good of a friend as I could have been. There’s been friends whom I know I’ve hurt and another who quit speak­ing to me although I never learned the rea­son. There’s been some who have hurt me. However, since mov­ing to Our Little House, I’ve learned to take life – and my friends – more at face value.

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Correna and CeeCee Marie

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 them in a stress­ful ken­nel situation.

We have a great pet nanny and house sit­ter who comes to Our Little House for the dura­tion of our trip.

Correna has become a very trusted and valu­able mem­ber of Our Little House community.

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My friend and blog­ging col­league, Roxanne Hawn, declared today Dog Food Action Day,  a day to pur­chase a bag of dog food (or any pet food) and take it to your local food pantry, ani­mal shel­ter or res­cue to give to a needy fam­ily for their pets.

I'm chal­len­ing my Living Large read­ers, Tweeps and other social media friends to read a story on my Rescue Me blog about how a dona­tion of dog food made a huge dif­fer­ence for one man and his 3 dogs.  I'm hop­ing I can gather 10 com­mit­ments to retweet, repost and pass the word about the campaign!