Thursday, March 27, 2025

COTTAGE LIVING IN A BIG WAY WITH PATIO GARDENING and EATING HEALTHIER AS AN OLDER WOMAN

CONTAINER GARDENS.  We grew a few plants in containers last year with great success.  Tomatoes and peppers.  They were delicious and didn't require must attention. Thinking about doing it again the Spring/Summer/Fall except we'll move the location of the pots.  We have a stacked pile of bricks for a future patio in the middle of the back yard.  I don't like the pile being there and am considering moving the saved up bricks to the side of the yard or in front of the garage.  We can lay the brick out and sit the containers on it to have a patio garden.  The actual patio will not be built for a few years as the front porch has to be rebuilt first. Time and attention to other projects before the patio. 

It'll take a while to relocate the brick to a different place, but I believe it is for the best that the bricks be moved.  Until the patio is built, I need some decluttering done for a better looking yard.


THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IT A TRY.

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~FOODS THAT CAN HELP MAKE YOU HEALTHIER~

I believe we should eat healthier to get and stay healthier.
These pics share excellent food to consume at just about any age.
So be it.
















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WITH ALL THE HEATH ISSUES I HAVE HAD, I became more interested in health, food and exercise.  I'm not a scholar or expert, but you don't have to be to be interested in getting healthier.  I am more informed than I was which should account for something.  Tooting my own horn and blowing a whistle.  I might as well be my own cheerleader as I age.  πŸ“£πŸ“£πŸ“£πŸ“£

If I give up then I have given up and I don't believe that GOD wants us to give up.  Maybe submit to HIM in more ways than one way, but not give up.  Asking for wisdom and guidance from my LORD.

Visited with my Mom.  She may have breast cancer.  She has shared for years that she has no energy and walks wobbly.  When I share getting checked for vitamin deficiencies, it falls on deaf ears.  She seems content to stay exhausted.  Without being her guardian, I don't believe I can force her to get checked for deficiencies.  Frustrating, but I'll pray that someone can reach her to persuade her that she needs to find out if she has vitamin deficiencies.  Vitamin D deficiencies (which is actually a hormone and not a vitamin at all) is linked to various cancers including breast cancer.    

WALKING 11 days in a row which adds to 21 days altogether during the month of March.  The best I have done thus far since walking began a year ago.  

I pushed myself and walked 2 1/4 miles on Wednesday.  Broke the milage up in two different events.  I walked to the storage unit to meet up with my Husband to work some in the unit then walked HOME.  This was a tough walk for me.

I cooled off at HOME and fell asleep.  After supper, I went to the track and walked a solid mile. My legs felt like rubber when I got done.  I'm not sure how strong I will stand tomorrow when time to walk again.  

Two days in a row, I made my 2 mile mark.  Determined to get healthier.  When I weighed myself in the morning, I frowned as I put a few pounds on.  Water retention? This is disturbing to me. Saddens me.  So I did quite a bit of reading today about hypothyroidism and gluten.

After it cools off some, I'll go walking around 7:30.  I'd like to see if I can walk to the Dollar store and purchase some fluoride free toothpaste and then return HOME.  This should be a two mile walk.  Can I do it?  I'm sure gonna try.  Amen and amen.

The PANTRY CLEAN-UP is almost done.  Whoopie.  I still have to figure where to go with crackers and who knows what else.  It's a mystery unfolding.  

As for the uncluttering elsewhere in the house, I have plenty to do.  I cleared off the top of my Grandma's HUTCH or sideboard as some would call it, dusted and relocated a large silver-plated Coffee/Tea Service Set that was in the Living room to the HUTCH.  Like it there.  This frees up the top of the antique walnut chest where I can play with some EASTER RABBITS looking about for the SEASON.  I came across a twig basket that was in storage that I will clean up and place EASER EGGS in and sit it on the chest with the BUNNIES.  The decorator in me isn't asleep.  πŸ‡πŸ°πŸ‡πŸ°πŸ‡

God bless,
~d


     

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DAUGHTER'S PIE CRUST RECIPE

Pie Crust Recipe.
With her permission I share her recipe with you.
BLESS your family, friends and your taste buds with this wonderful crust.

Pie Crust Recipe

1 cup flour
3 heaping tablespoons of shortening
A dash of salt
A tiny bit of ice cold water

Mix ingredients together well.
Roll out on wax paper.
Assemble pie.
Spread a little milk on top of crust before baking.

Simply delicious,
d


DECORATING

I knew a very frugal Lady named Edith that shared with me a excellent guideline for decorating. She said with ease, "If your room has clean ceilings, floors, and walls, and the windows have nice curtains, you'll have an attractive room."



John 3:7

“Marvel not that I said unto thee,

Ye must be born again.”

King James Version (KJV)

PSALM 118:17

I shall not die,
but live, and declare
the works of the Lord.

PROVERBS 24:3-4

By wisdom
a house is built,
and through understanding

it is established;
through
knowledge

its rooms are filled with rare

and beautiful treasures.



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MEMORY VERSE

MEMORY VERSE

SALVATION

Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Acts 4:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

PHILIPIANS 4:13

PHILIPIANS 4:13


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THESE TINY BLESSINGS

HE TOUCHED ME

THESE WORDS CHANGED MY LIFE!

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Blue Garland Dishes

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Why I Decided To Become A Homemaker

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PSALM 90:12

SO
TEACH us
to number OUR days,
that we may apply our HEARTS
unto
WISDOM.

HOME HAVEN LILIES ON THE PRAIRIE

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LUKE 12: 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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BLOSSOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED

BLOSSOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED
As long as I live, I will have to continually submit to God's plan for my life. You will be blessed because you turned your life over to God. Be confessing how good God is and tell Him you agree with who He says He is. BELIEVE and watch miracles happen. Be not afraid. ~Deanna

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NO MATTER HOW BADLY YOU WISH with all your might that the something devastating that happened in your life hadn't happened and want so badly to go back in time to prevent it from happening...it isn't humanly possible to do this. You can't change the fact that it happened. IT DID. But JESUS can change the MEANING of what happened to you and give you PEACE. He can show you the way in which you are to go. God richly BLESS you. ~Deanna