Hello ladies. I will be posting more of our swap photos tomorrow. Today I would like to give you links for more ideas for making holiday ...

Shane and Sarndra just before they went home yesterday. I was interested to read in the Why are you simplifying? post that several readers ...

Karen has asked me to write about the Australian tea tradition. I'm not sure that tradition continues today but this is my version of w...

I have a catch-up day today. Although Hanno has told me to concentrate on my writing and he will do the laundry and most of the indoor work...

These are just a few photos I've taken in the backyard in the past week that really don't relate to my post. I know many of you lik...

Well, here he is - Hanno admiring the view when I took him out to lunch on his birthday. We met up with Bernadette at an "English ...

It's Hanno's birthday today - 19 September, he is 68. It's also International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a fact I'll remind hi...

Carl Larsen painting, Christmas Morning, from Carl Larsen gallery. Christmas has the potential to undo all your frugal efforts throughout t...

It's official. Meet Seth! Hanno said he saw him engaging in some hanky panky with the girls, so it looks like we've got ourselves ...

I've been resting these past couple of days and, impatient as I am to be well again, I think I'm almost there. The pain is gone fro...

The beginnings of a cotton nightie I started last weekend. My simple life is a series of small changes. They may appear inconsequential to ...

The photos were taken yesterday afternoon. Click on the photos to enlarge them. It's the first day of Spring today. Rain has been fore...

I wrote yesterday about my life and how I have changed. I want to take that a step further today and write about how you might simplify, if...

When I was growing up it was a commonly held belief that if you did well at school, worked hard and made a lot of money, you would live a li...

Hello everyone. My routine has been thrown out somewhat because I have a visitor here. My second sister, Kathleen, arrived yesterday aftern...

We have to net these peaches this weekend to stop the fruit fly getting them. It's a constant battle which I often seem to lose. You wo...