The Hopeful Homestead

Saturday Bliss...

HI!  I've had another great day with the girls!  We went to the B-Ball awards program, then to the "mall" to get E's ears pierced & do a bit of shopping for pants.  (Far too busy for us, though we'll go back on a week day, but the ears are done at last!)  Then we went to Goodwill where I scored 8 small white Pfaltzgraff bread plates for $2.14 (tax included!)  They make perfect "snack" plates for the Ladies' tea set.  The 1st Saturday of every month our Goodwill has everything 1/2 off!  Well worth the trip!  We rounded out the afternoon at the bookstore where I finally got my own copy of Square Foot Gardening (I have it so often from the library there's a copy in my van right now, waiting to be returned!)

Another great book I found at the library this week is Green Housekeeping It's a housekeeping book so well written, it makes you want to read it cover to cover (maybe w/ a highlighter)  I plan on getting my own copy ASAP as it's full of info I know I'll want to refer back to again and again.  It's like every great housekeeping and organizing system all rolled into one, and all from an environmentally friendly perspective!  It's great!  -But very relaxed in approach too...(buy towels that match your local dirt color for instance, so dirt shows less & drives you crazy less as well!)

So... That's how I'm spending my weekend... reading up on housekeeping and gardening.  Getting back into my "homestead groove"  and putting some of the things I've read into practice.  A great way to spend the weekend if you ask me!  Have a blessed weekend!

Peace~

Shari

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09:18, Monday, March 3, 2008 .. Posted by Mennobrarian

Thanks for the reading recommendations. :-) I do that too- take books out from the library and keep them so long that I just end up buying them. Now, where can I find a palette of local dirt colors???
~Monica~

Hi! In the book she actually tells of one woman leaving white carpet samples outside the doors for a month or so, then taking the now soiled samples with her shopping for color matching! LOL! We have red clay here, and plenty of it, I think terra cotta towels are in my family's future!! Thanks for commenting!
Shari

Edited by 3jemsmom on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 10:44