Inclined Happiness

The last couple of weeks have been strange ones here, the pollen arrived so much earlier this year and brought with it allergy season. I suppose it's not as bad as it could be, given the fact that we've been taking Cayenne pepper and it works wonders.

I was (not so blessed) this past week with a short, yet itchy bought of poison ivy, ...

On occasions in life, it is necessary to stop and appreciate the little things. Yesterday was an unusually gorgeous day, t-shirt weather in the middle of January, if you can believe that! It was the first time in months that dh and I had a chance to spend a couple hours together horseback riding and we had a blast. Having this time reminded me of how ...

Sometimes in life you have to clean house. I'm not talking about your physical home, although living in a cluttered environment takes its own toll; I'm talking about all of the things in your life that cause a drain on you emotionally- and sometimes physically.

This morning, I deleted my personal Facebook account. Yes, I had a number ...

Well, we finally finished another roof around 8 pm last night before having to head off to a friends house to take care of their pets and garden (we're critter sitting!).

The blackberries are in and I've been picking them whenever I get a moment and am hoping to make some blackberry jelly (rather than jam this time around). I have several ...

What an incredibly long week! I hadn't realized how quickly clutter had accumulated in our closets over the spring/summer. I spent an entire day pulling everything out of the closets in our home, evaluating it with my required de-cluttering questions:

• Do I need it?
• Do I want it? (If I answer Yes, I ask myself, Have I used it in the last

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