Simple

Good thing I like simple things...a simple plan ~ simple life!

;) I was thinking about all that today as Charles and I were riding around our place on the golf cart...and I told him just that! I told him how lucky I feel that I get so much enjoyment out of simple things! LOL~ and we both agreed I'd be in a mess of trouble if I was unable to find my joy and contentment in the simple things of my life here in the country! Because...it is what it is... ( for C. and me)) and any big excitements have long since, ' done come and gone' in our lives! Simple truth. Simple life.

Wouldn't it be just awful if you were in a life style or in a place where you found no joy- no fulfillment- in your daily routine? What if there were no reasons to smile in your days?

I feel blessed for all the simplicity in my days. And blessed for the ability to enjoy the smallest things that some might overlook!

Life is like panning for gold ...you just never know what you might find in that pan until you examine it up close! It can surprise you sometimes.

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The holiday just passed was very quiet, indeed, for the old folks of the farm! ( that's C. and me!)
No kids or grands around, except for Chris, my son. He lives with us.

Our girls, Tina and Alli, are on a trip to New Hampshire ( to see a rock concert...Plain White Ts!!!) They will be home late tomorrow. And our Orlando bunch couldn't come up.

So we had no celebrations planned at all-

Charles has been working very hard on our little rental house, which is on the back side of our 5 acres here. Chris will be renting it from us and he's looking forward to having his own place again. (LOL- And I'm looking forward to fixing up my bedrooms upstairs again, too!) The work is coming along good. This weekend we got the tile installed and the kitchen counter and sink and new bottom cabinets installed. I will put another coat of paint on them next week. Chris painted one of the 2 bedrooms. He likes that BLUE !

Some pics of how things are coming along!

I like this charming old house.
It will be pretty cool when we're through with it!








Charles also removed this monster Cherokee Rose...a wild rose we planted a few years ago that just went crazy! It had grown and climbed to the highest limbs of the oak tree there! Charles was able to get it pulled up and out with his tractor! Now, THAT was a scary sight! I watched him out the window from the house here. I was a nervous wreck watching! I could imagine one of those limbs breaking- or the tractor turning over...or something bad....But no mishaps at all! He did the job !

Oh! That plant is marvelous to see. It blooms only once a year and puts on a fantastic showing...but it was in a bad place with not enough room. Charles transplanted a couple small ones for me -by a couple of trees, in a place where they can just go wild again with growing and blooming! Well, I HOPE so anyway- because I love the plant!

I will show that plant in bloom- and the plant after Charles ripped it up and out of that tree!




These pictures were a couple years ago and the plant had gone much higher than you see here!





Here is the plant pulled up...so you can see what a monster it had become! :(

Oh! But I will miss it!










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Junie