A Rainy Sunday Afternoon
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By Daisy Luther
When I got up this morning the sky was overcast and it was raining. I was happy about this because when it’s raining you turn to inside chores and my poor aching body needs a rest after stacking just over 6 cords of wood the past few days.
First, we devoted some time to a little project for the fire – we put all the paper garbage through the shredder – a handful of this is a great fire-starting addition! We are shredding all the moving boxes for this purpose, as opposed to just discarding them.
Our elderly schnauzer Katie got a bath and is all pretty now! She was gets cold easily so we put her in her smart-looking red sweater to keep her cozy.
Finally, I had picked up some organic green beans on sale at a great price this week. I didn’t have quite enough for a canner load so I crushed some garlic and sliced up some carrots to make some lovely little jars of organic veggies to enjoy in the middle of the long winter. I hope to pick up a few more bags of these beans – they were delicious!
We’re having a simple, throw-it-in-the-oven and let it cook dinner, watching movies and being lazy bums for the rest of the day, while the rain falls gently on the roof.
A month ago, before we arrived here, I would have never in a million years considered this a quiet, relaxing day. Now it seems so imperative to be productive that these kind of tasks are precisely how I want to spend my time.
About the Author
Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, gun-toting blogger who writes about current events, preparedness, frugality, voluntaryism, and the pursuit of liberty on her website, The Organic Prepper. She is widely republished across alternative media and she curates all the most important news links on her aggregate site, PreppersDailyNews.com.
Daisy is the best-selling author of 4 books and lives in the mountains of Virginia with her two daughters and an ever-growing menagerie. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.
