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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 2:24:45 PM
are there things in your life .. that you find yourself 'dragging your feet' doing?
True Friends * Frannie
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 04:58:24 AM
ardis .. so very nice to hear your cyber-voice here on the connection. i love your article each maryjane issue!!! you are a wise and wonderful woman.
i never much sewed in my life .. ha! i can remember sewing my finger to an article of clothing i was attempting to make when i was in high school .. cuz' i was so busy 'regaling everyone with stories' and not watching! the worse needle though was the TETNUS shot the school made me go get!
i LOVE making rag dollies .. they are soooooooo forgiving about uneven seams and unhemmed dresses!
luckily, i am much like my own rag dolls when it comes to my own clothes .. never much mind a rip or tear or patch. (adds character i tell myself!)
are your girls now grown? are you a grammie yet? tell us more about you. xo, frannie
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 04:53:03 AM
diana darlin' .. i sure do admire that you have the ability to do this! (i won't let honey-hunk hold a flashlight for fear he will electrocute himself!) living here and having more time (retired) .. he has learned to do lots more than when he was a nine to fiver!
would LOVE to see some of the homes you renovated. any tips? sounds like you could write a great book! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| homemakerkate |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 01:26:33 AM
Heather I completely understand. I havent had loss to deal with but at times my depression gets the best of me and I dont even want to get out of bed. All too often I feel as if I am being pulled in a million directions. I have a job, it is "vollunteer" but I do get paid a pitance and work about 60 hours a week as an EMT. If I dont put in the time there arent enough medics. Then because some others see me as the "stay at home mom with Nothing to do" they all want to send their kids over. big sigh. They dont realize I have my own to feed and entertain. Or do and just dont care. It seems sometimes what needs to get done is bigger then I am. I get the kids to help, which isnt always easy, but I need some bigger help too sometimes. Dh works alot as well, he is not much help. The back burner for me seems to end up being the upstairs. As soon as I get the down stairs completely cleaned, then I have to cook and then I never seem to make it up there to clean....
http://homemakerkate2.blogspot.com |
| Ardis Eckel |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 8:17:04 PM
It's mending for me. In fact, anything at the sewing machine. And when my girls were little, I sewed half of what they wore. And loved it. Even their prom gowns in highschool. But it seems like the cost of materials and patterns has risen so much in comparison to what you can buy ready-made, especially if you watch the sales. So since I don't sew from scratch, the sewing machine doesn't get pulled out. And the mending doesn't get done either. Ardis
Every Woman Has a Story writer & Arbonne Ind. Consultant. www.ardiseckel.myarbonne.com |
| dkelewae |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:37:01 AM
Frannie...and it's lots more 'fun' when you rehab several houses a year!
Diana
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:31:21 AM
denise .. i've found myself in that same boat in the last couple months .. since being in toledo for six weeks with the grands (never had time to pick up a needle and thread .. now that i am back home .. there are a thousand little things that NEED DOIN' before i start creating again! i miss makin' dollies! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:30:18 AM
diana .. that reminds me of all the people who have 'handy-man/woman' stuff that needs to be done to their homes .. but they just LIVE WITH IT .. UNTIL .. it is time to SELL their home .. then they FIX it for the NEW owners. been there .. done that .. don't do it anymore! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:28:58 AM
samantha .. if YOU are the dishwasher .. i say YOU get to decide! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:27:48 AM
jami .. with just two olde english sheepdogs that roam in and out of the house (and they have a HUGE HUGE HUGE area to run in .. but it's all grass .. and they have their own screened-in back porch .. and YET .. my floors always have two inches of dust and dirt on them! i can't even imagine if they romped in hay! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 09:14:03 AM
Sewing and handwork, haven't done any in ages. Just trying to keep up with the housework. Sad to say that even though I swept, mopped, cleaned out two refrigerators and did up all the dishes from that. (there were a lot and no dishwasher)I am still not caught up. Yesterday was spent getting the laundry caught up,again, and cleaning my room. One of my major problems is that I can never seem to get completely done. Though I cleaned my room I did not get finished and it is just left that way. It happens a lot in other areas too. Not enough hours in the day I guess. Still have to hit the grocery store today. I hate that job and I always put it off way to long.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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| dkelewae |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 08:33:30 AM
My housework and knitting has been on the back burner lately because I'm in the process of working on a rehab house we bought to fix up and resell(Hubby & I own our own investment/rental property business,and I'm also a licensed real estate agent). Thank goodness it should be done tomorrow so I can get it on the market next week. How sad that the rehab house is sparkling clean and my house is a wreck!
Diana
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city! |
| elphie0503 |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 07:38:47 AM
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Originally posted by CabinCreek-Kentucky
SAMANTHA .. i don't even have a DISHWASHER .. have had them most of my life .. but RARELY ever used them! I don't even like the 'loading' part! Spent six weeks at my daughter's house recently .. and bought them a dish strainer/rack .. and i never mind hand-washing, air-drying and putting them away. That way .. the pile never gets to be too big!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
You know Frannie...I was a hand washer until about a year ago when we bought the cabin. It really came in handy when Addy was a newborn, with all the bottles and nipples, but now?? I don't know...I told DH that I am thinking about just taking it out! I miss getting to watch the world out my kitchen window! Now, if he agrees or not we'll see!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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| Jami |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 07:31:40 AM
Girls, we are in haying season around here. I am vacuuming 4+ times a week and there are still hay particles especially in the bedroom where DH changes from work (outside) clothes to anything else and the bathroom floor and throw rugs are always scattered with bits of hay. I get so darned tired of it, I just feel like I want to give up! He can't help it...he shakes off and tries to get it off outside before he comes in but the stuff is in his ears and hair, etc. We have put up about 100 tons of hay so far and he hand stacked it all...for my sheep and our horses...so I keep quiet or I might have a mutiny on my hands!! Then with the windows open this time of year so much and the wind blowing...the house needs dusting every single dadgum day...I just don't have the patience for it but I trudge along at it and try to make friends with it until we have a love/hate relationship and it has to go!
Just venting...I'm a lucky girl and I know it. Just like a clean house and feel like I'm swimming upstream on it most of the time.
Jami in WA
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 03:31:05 AM
good for you miz heather .. if we just 'prioritize' our lives .. it is so much more orderly and less stressful.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 03:29:58 AM
i don't 'do' paperwork .. thank goodness .. hank takes care of all the bookwork!!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 03:27:52 AM
SAMANTHA .. i don't even have a DISHWASHER .. have had them most of my life .. but RARELY ever used them! I don't even like the 'loading' part! Spent six weeks at my daughter's house recently .. and bought them a dish strainer/rack .. and i never mind hand-washing, air-drying and putting them away. That way .. the pile never gets to be too big!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 03:26:21 AM
jami .. most of my home stays pretty clean most of the time (except for DOG DUST!) but i do have one room and my 'schoolhouse' that usually looks like World War III has occurred! SOMEDAY!!!!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 10 2008 : 03:25:20 AM
oh lisa .. me too! i'll pile up VERY IMPORTANT PAPERS .. then the pile get so tall .. i just put everything in a box that i'm determined to get to later. when i do .. i laugh cuz' most of it is jus' TOSS THIS OUT stuff that i shoulda' thrown away right away! xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 8:59:43 PM
Well, as of recently....life and getting on with it. I just didn't have any direction and felt a little lost and sad about things but I am starting to kick myself in the old backside and just get on with it already. I made a list of 2 major things and 3 minor things I want to accomplish by Summer 2009 and I am organizing my life to make those goals happen. The rest was all tossed out the window. If it is not purposeful to my greater cause, it is being passed on to someone else or just into the world for whomever or whatever can use it, whether materially, physically, mentally, emotionally.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 7:16:04 PM
I'm with Jami - I get things so they are almost to the point of all the way clean, then my husband comes home from out of town and dumps his stuff in the mudroom, or my son cleans his room and fills the laundry room. I try to keep the important stuff clean - bathroom and kitchen, and the living room, you know the stuff that shows, but the rest of it is an uphill battle
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
| Sitnalta |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 6:36:36 PM
Doing the dishes! I have never had a love for washing dishes. ( I hate to agree with Melanie too, sorting and folding socks have never been a favorite either. Hubby and I trade. if I do socks he put the rest of thelaundry away)
:)
Jess
Farmgirl Sister #235
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. -- Mark Twain |
| melanie47601 |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 6:12:59 PM
Sorting mail, book work for the cleaning service, putting away clutter, dusting, folding socks.....
This week I'm doing really good so far, knock on wood.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 5:10:13 PM
paperwork. I don't like paperwork
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 4:56:40 PM
folding and hanging clothes. Cleaning my craft room.
Farmgirl Sister #17
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 4:36:39 PM
I'm jumping on the book work wagon too! I just got all the May receipts entered today, and it was dull as dishwater :p Tomorrow I'll tackle June..
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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