De-Plasticize Your Home: Know The Codes
More reading on my part regarding the abundance of chemicals in our lives. This time the culprit is plastics. When it was considered the newest miracle product of the 1950s, our grandmothers still...
View ArticleStarting Fresh From a Different Angle
After a three year hiatus, Simple Stewardship is back in the blogosphere. For three years I posted diligently about my struggles with vegetable gardening in a back yard with a western exposure during...
View ArticleNature Around Us
“We can grow closer to a place and the life that inhabits it, by deciding to do so. To paraphrase an old song: If you can’t be with the land you love, love the land you’re with.” Richard Louv, The...
View ArticleRecipe- Savory Pecan Loaf (The Abascal Way)
I’ve been trying to make more meatless meals, so when a friend loaned me her copy of The Abascal Way Cookbook, I was pleasantly surprised at how good many of the recipes sounded. Or maybe my pallette...
View ArticlePatience with an Attitude
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting – Unknown I will be the first to admit that patience is not a virture I possess. Once I make a plan, I want...
View ArticleOn the Bluebonnet Trail
The Great Bluebonnet Expedition of 2014 was a success. The weather kinda sucked, but it was okay. We got some good pics. I have to admit, in my own mind, part of the motivation for the trip was to...
View ArticleThe Natives Make Me Restless
Forty-five native Oklahoma plants were delivered yesterday! Forty-five!!!! Guess I lost my head a little. Now to get them in the ground. Feeling just a little overwhelmed and restless to get out there...
View ArticleNative Garden Project Finished- Woohoo!!
I had a date this morning – with 40 bags of Grade A cedar mulch. Fortunately I didn’t have to tackle it alone. My husband opened and poured while I raked and spread. Just to recap……… This is what we...
View ArticleOh My Aching Heart
We have to let our children go. Its a hard fact of life. I have been suffering terrible separation anxiety this week over sending our son to Japan to work for one to two years. He’s not a child, by...
View ArticleHomemade Granola Goodness
We eat a lot of granola at our house. I usually buy the healthiest I can find at my local grocery store, but most of it has some form of processed sugar in it – even the “natural” brands – and it’s a...
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