At the Good Life

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Friday, November 30, 2007: Blogging with a Purpose Award
Friday, November 30, 2007: Screen Saver
Friday, November 30, 2007: SUNBURNT
Thursday, November 29, 2007: Babysitting
Thursday, November 29, 2007: What should you be when you grow up.
Thursday, November 29, 2007: Desert Evening
Tuesday, November 27, 2007: More than Rubies Monday
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Cranberry Thanksgiving
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Ready Mix
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Use your Crystal
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Quilt shopping
Saturday, November 24, 2007: Gift of free wood.
Friday, November 23, 2007: Abbey’s Christmas MinceMeat
Friday, November 23, 2007: Photo Shoot.
Friday, November 23, 2007: Trip to town.
Thursday, November 22, 2007: Assignment results are in
Wednesday, November 21, 2007: busy
Friday, November 16, 2007: Impulse buying
Thursday, November 15, 2007: 2007 Home School Awards
Thursday, November 15, 2007: Hiarcuts today
Thursday, November 15, 2007: How to Bottle Ginger Beer
Thursday, November 15, 2007: Christmas Cake
Wednesday, November 14, 2007: Christmas Cake - Day one.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007: Lemon Squash
Wednesday, November 14, 2007: The Bird Man
Wednesday, November 14, 2007: Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday, November 13, 2007: Paullina Simons NZ Book Tour
Tuesday, November 13, 2007: We are sailing
Tuesday, November 13, 2007: Fried Goose egg
Tuesday, November 13, 2007: Big Kid!
Monday, November 12, 2007: Study
Sunday, November 11, 2007: Handle Bars.
Sunday, November 11, 2007: Strawberry Fair
Sunday, November 11, 2007: Eat at home fast instead of takeaways.
Saturday, November 10, 2007: Look of Blog
Saturday, November 10, 2007: Home Alone
Saturday, November 10, 2007: Kittens
Friday, November 9, 2007: Introducing.....another Kiwi Blogger
Friday, November 9, 2007: Our James
Friday, November 9, 2007: Packed lunch
Thursday, November 8, 2007: Wikipedia; Definitions of Grove for a Mrs W.
Thursday, November 8, 2007: Birthday present Missing
Thursday, November 8, 2007: Blog this
Wednesday, November 7, 2007: Gamblers
Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Zero Fees
Monday, November 5, 2007: Frugal Changes we have made
Monday, November 5, 2007: Back Up
Monday, November 5, 2007: Preparing new garden
Saturday, November 3, 2007: New Geese
Saturday, November 3, 2007: Nikolai a special baby model (This will make your heart sing!)
Friday, November 2, 2007: Pet food – stockpile
Friday, November 2, 2007: Price Book
Thursday, November 1, 2007: Eczema
Thursday, November 1, 2007: Handmade Holidays

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A warm welcome to our families daily blog. "Living The Good Life"

We are a family of four & I’m the luckiest girl I know! Married to my best friend for over 21 years, raising two wonderful children on our 3 acre farmlet in New Zealand.


I was a Bank Manager in previous life (before kids) and now a kept women - home schooling our two kids. Brent is a Service Projects Manager and brings home the bacon for the family.

We got "off the bus" ie away from continual comsumption & accumulation of material goods & find much joy in living a simple life.

I enjoy writing & sharing views on living a simple life, menu planning, living on one income in a two income world, home schooling, dyslexia, severe food allergies, raising coloured sheep, goats & hens, quilting, reading, cooking, gardening and of course cats.

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Breakfast

Heart Shaped fried eggs

Museli

Morning Tea

Banana Sour Cream Cake

Berry Slice

Birthday Fudge

Blueberry Muffins

Boiled Fruit Cake

Celery Herb Muffins

Chocolate, Apricot & Coconut slice

Chocolate Cake - fool proof

Chocolate Cake - Allergy free

Chocolate Chilli Cake

Chocolate Zuchinni Cake

Christmas Cake Day One & Day Two

Feijoa Muffins

Ginger Bread

Ginger Gems

Ham & Cheese Muffins

Hot Cross Buns

Lemon Muffins

Radio Biscuits

Lunch

Bacon n egg pie

Crayfish Mornay

Frittata

Ham Quiche

Packed Lunches

Sausage n egg pie

Breads

Basic White Bread

Fruit Bread

Soda Bread

Soups

Chicken Soup

Tomato Minestrone

Vegetable

Dinner

Chicken Pie

Chicken Pie (Allergy free)

Felafel

Moroccon Lamb

Roast Lamb

Stuffed Sausages

Vegetarian Taco's

Vegetables & salads

Coleslaw

Rataoulle

Rock Melon Salsa

Rosemary Potatoes

Puddings

Black Boy Peach Crumble

Christmas Mince meat of Christmas Pies

Pastry Pillows

Pavalova

Rhubarb & Strawberry Tart

Preserves

Apricot Jam

Chicken Stock

Dried Bananas

Dried Tomatoes

Feijoa ginger & lime Jam

Ginger Beer BUG

Ginger Beer - how to bottle

Lemon Squash

Make your own Dog Food

Olives

Pickled Onions

Tomato Relish

Critter Count

* Molly the Goat
* Rory the Roster
* Road Island Reds
* Frizzels
* Briar, Laura, Caro, Jasmine & Rosemary the Burmese Queens
* Cindy & Lordy the Mandalays
* Current Kitten count 7
* Mack the Mastiff
* Geraldine the Goose
* Roxy the Ringneck Parrot
* Doves
* Coloured Sheep
* Tadpoles Frogs

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Blogs & Webs I Enjoy Visiting

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An Orchardist Quilting

Bean Sprouts

Belinda's Simple Life

Cottage Hill Herbs

Crazy Mom Quilts

Down to Earth

Earthmama

Eco Seeds

FIAR Boards

Ginny's Herbs

Grandmothers Garden

Homemaking Homestead

Hunkin Gardening Products

Incredible Edibles

Joyful Mother of 6

Koanga NZ

Little Bourne Farm

Little Jenny Wren

Mary Quilts

Moments of Whismy

Morning Ramble

My Tiny Plot

Nest with a View

New Age Hippy

Our Prairie Home

Patchwork Times

Rabbits Nest

Rural Writings

Seven Stitches

Saving Money in New Zealand

Scattered Seed

Simple Things in Life

Stuff.co.nz

Susan Branch

Towards Sustainability

Movies Our Family has enjoyed

My books 2006-2008

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Meet Our Family


Brent working in his shed


Leanne, that is I


Mack the Mastiff

Caro with her litter,we always have a litter of kittens in our home!


Molly the Goat

Some of our Sheep & this years lambs; won’t tell you which are going in pot


Birds sure know where to get a free feed - Dove, chickens & mother duck with ducklings.



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