Quiet Life Homestead

Wednesday

I feel much better so far today and did yesterday than when I wrote last.  I drank I don't know how many glasses of water yesterday and I think that had a lot to do with it.  At dinner I had one glass of sweet tea and afterwards felt horrible again.  Charlie thinks it may be sugar related.  It could be, but I'm wondering if my body is still needing water and "upset" that I gave it tea. 

This morning I finally began working in the master bathroom.  I didn't take everything out like I was going to, but instead moved things from one side of the room to the other.  I still need to do the double sinks and countertop area, but its looking much better. 

I've been reading Little House in the Ozarks and gleaning much wisdom from the Wilders.  I've been trying to find a copy of the book to purchase but my local Barnes & Noble doesn't have it.  I don't like to purchase things online, but may just have to in this case.  Anyway, something that struck me as I was reading the other day (and I've been pondering over it in my head ever since) is the difference in how we think and live nowadays.  Back in the early 1900s even, people looked at the long term much more than at least I do now.  A writing attributed to Almonzo was about this land they had purchased.  He mentioned that the previous owner had a lot of apple trees that needed to be planted and all that went into doing that, etc.  But the thing that hit it home for me was Almonzo said if he had been able to, he would have tilled and prepared for the land for a few seasons before planting the trees.  Okay, we're probably talking two years at least before the planting and then the seven years he said it took for the trees to produce apples.  He's thinking of doing something today that the benefits will not come for possibly nine years!  I know that in homeschooling, I'm doing the same thing.  I don't always think about the future results, my eyes are spent enjoying the here and now with the kids.  As they get older, I'm reminded almost constantly that the time is dwindling. 

In our culture (the U.S. anyway), everything's about NOW.  We want our food NOW, our entertainment NOW, EVERYTHING NOW!  How destructive is that?!  I feel it is very destructive.  I want to change my way of thinking and to model it for the kids so that maybe they won't be part of the NOW culture.  Stop the merry-go-round, I want to get off, NOW!  :)  I just couldn't resist. 

Its kind of funny, for in my case, getting off the NOW bandwagon has helped spur me on to work on various projects.  Just two for example are the bathroom cleaning and decluttering, and also I've finished working on the sofa cushions.  Now all I need to do is make the pillows that go behind your back and to do the arms.  How that has been helped by the de-NOWing, I don't know, it just has.  Silly, huh?!

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{ 05:18, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 } { Posted by a1health }

I think most of us on this blog really are trying to get off of the NOW bandwagon. I know that I am as much as possible. My husband is always go, go, go type of mentality, so that's where we clash. You may be able to find a copy of Laura Ingalls' books at your Goodwill. Good luck!
Blessings,
~Farrah