Continuing the journey...with fresh paths

I LOVE this blog post title...

Continuing the journey...with fresh paths.

Starting over...

It can be a bad thing.

Or it can be a good thing.

I choose to call it "good".

Clothes hung out on a winters day this week!

We have finally moved into our new "home".

Sorry...I have to get used to calling it that....

My "stuff" getting put in all new places....

It was really....really hard at first.

But then, the more I was able to put my things, my chotchkies, my "junk" in spaces and places, the more I was able to take deep breaths and realize...

OK...this may not be my old home, but it was home, none-the-less.

No one had died.

No one was sick.

We had plenty of food, clothing, and now shelter.

It is, by far, more than most people in this world have.

And I am thankful.

Sheesh...did I just say that???

More "stuff"

Thankfully, we were able to keep most of our furniture, tho there are things we just could not/did not take that still makes me cry.

Imagine having to go to WalMart and replacing brooms, dustpans, mops, buckets, clothespins, drapery rods....

Cost us over $200 to replace what was lost.

$200 we did not really have.

And that doesn't include things like my sewing table, bookcases (ooh, I miss my bookcases!), etc.

Bread pans went missing, as well as jelly roll pans, and the brand spankin' new Chicago Metallic french bread pans I just got for my birthday.

Where, oh where art thou, bread pans????

(My dear friend Deby is sending me a special delivery of new glass bread pans and a french bread pan!!!)

I can not wait!

But there is a flea market every Thursday starting in the spring thru fall,  just down the road 4 miles, so I am looking to find some cast-offs there.

And I still can't find my iron.

yeah....found the ironing board, but no iron:(

Barkcloth curtains and vintage lamp....

U.G.L.Y. paneled walls...I know.

Perhaps the landlady will be willing to let us paint in the spring?

 View from my kitchen sink...southern exposure!

Somewhere out there will be an herb garden and a veggie garden.

Not too big, not too small...

Just right for two of us.

But lots of tomato plants!

Can one ever have too many tomatoes?

I think not!!!

The land here (1 acre) is barren....not a shrub, bush, or perennial in sight.

We have 2 smallish wild cherry trees in the front (northern exposure) and we have our bird feeders directly in front of them, right near our dinette window.

We are delighting in identifying new birds nearly every day.

Nuthatches, Goldfinch, Junco's, Chickadees, Titmice, Downy peckers, Red headed peckers, Cardinals, Jays, and doves....so far!

I am hoping/praying that friends who are near enough will share some of their perennials when it comes time to divide them in the spring.

I would love some ornamental perennial grasses in the front along the front of the trailer, and some lavender, peonies,.....

shoot, let's face it....I'll take just about anything for a bit of color here!

And if finances permit, annuals are a great fill-in till the perennials take hold.

I think the hardest season to come will be spring.

Just remembering the gardens and herbs that are no longer mine....

The joy I took in working the ground in the spring with all the new growth popping up.

The special flowers and plants given to me over the years by my children and dear friends.

(Mothers Day and birthdays were always gifts of live plants...it's what I asked for!)

I remember my sweetie Parisienne Farmgirl Ang digging up Lilies of the Valley in the rain one chilly, rainy autumn day for my northern exposure front porch. And my dear, dear friend Savvy City Farmer Joy, passing along bits and bobs of plants she was dividing special for me.

Now I start over......

NOTE TO SELF:

Re-read the very beginning of this post about being thankful.....

Sheesh....I am a slow learner.

In Christ alone,

Cindy

PS....for right now, I am blogging on my laptop from the local library. Hoping to have internet in the next week...bah....country living.

Oh yeah, right...it's the life for me!
Oh, yeah...I will be advertising my "Farm Fresh" soaps in the premiere issue of Parisienne Farmgirl's new online magazine! I am so excited to be able to open up new avenues for my tiny soap business. I am hoping and praying I will be able to add some healing teas and salves in the early spring. Look for more info as soon as I get internet...Ang's magazine will be something really, really special!