At the Good Life

"Ah! There is nothing like staying home for comfort."
-- Jane Austen


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Archives
Wednesday, April 30, 2008: May's Block of the month
Wednesday, April 30, 2008: New Old Sewing Box
Wednesday, April 30, 2008: Tightening the belt.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008: Stockpiling
Monday, April 28, 2008: Feijoa ginger Lime Jam
Monday, April 28, 2008: Lemon Muffins
Monday, April 28, 2008: Learning to drive
Sunday, April 27, 2008: Double 4 patch quilt
Saturday, April 26, 2008: Our Simple Lives.
Friday, April 25, 2008: catching Up
Friday, April 25, 2008: Anzac Day
Thursday, April 24, 2008: School Holidays
Wednesday, April 23, 2008: The Simple Woman's Daybook
Tuesday, April 22, 2008: How to begin stockpile
Monday, April 21, 2008: Our Sunday
Monday, April 21, 2008: Spenders
Sunday, April 20, 2008: Cost of Living in NZ
Sunday, April 20, 2008: Cutting food shopping down
Sunday, April 20, 2008: Our Saturday
Saturday, April 19, 2008: Rain Checks.
Saturday, April 19, 2008: Birding
Thursday, April 17, 2008: A good day
Thursday, April 17, 2008: Flash Flood kills 6 children & teacher while on school trip
Wednesday, April 16, 2008: Knitting socks
Wednesday, April 16, 2008: A Day in my Life
Tuesday, April 15, 2008: The Simple Woman's Daybook
Monday, April 14, 2008: Green Tomatoes
Monday, April 14, 2008: Poached Pears
Monday, April 14, 2008: Roxy the ringneck parrot
Monday, April 14, 2008: Making the frill for the Austrian Blind
Sunday, April 13, 2008: Quiltathon
Sunday, April 13, 2008: Scarecrows BEWARE
Friday, April 11, 2008: Cooking with Leanne
Friday, April 11, 2008: New Camera
Friday, April 11, 2008: Worm Farm
Thursday, April 10, 2008: A Simple Woman's Daybook
Thursday, April 10, 2008: Homemade Muesli
Wednesday, April 9, 2008: Knitting - sewing up your seams.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008: Worms & Frogs
Monday, April 7, 2008: Our Sunday
Sunday, April 6, 2008: Last day of annual leave
Sunday, April 6, 2008: Compost
Saturday, April 5, 2008: First vege meal of week
Friday, April 4, 2008: Vegan meal Challenge
Thursday, April 3, 2008: Learn to Quilt - Make use of those scraps
Wednesday, April 2, 2008: Learn to Quilt Part 6 - Sewing
Tuesday, April 1, 2008: Beginners frugal Block of the month - Block 1.

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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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Museli

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Rock Melon Salsa

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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


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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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