Catch a Cold!

I woke up this morning wondering why I had gone to sleep with the ceiling fan on high. If Preacher man had his way, we wouldn't use the things. He's from the school of: You'll catch a cold sleeping under a fan! Who came up with that stuff anyway? Probably someone that likes to lie in their own sweat.

This time of year makes me want to sit on the porch and just do nothing. I mean, have you been out there and noticed the humidity is under 50%? Wait, you may not be from here... The humidity in central Arkansas is sometimes, somewhat high. Anyway, it's been downright pleasant!

We came to a place this summer where we turned the A/C off and we left it off. Mainly cuz we couldn't afford to cool this house, but there comes a point when it's cooler outside in the morning than it is in your house,? that's when you shut the puppy down and just deal with the heat of the day. It almost prepares you for the coming death grip of winter!!! Almost. 

We're having a yard sell this weekend. I can hear you asking: 
But Kimer, you just had a huge yard sell!
I know! This is the stuff that almost didn't make the cut last time.

I working on having more good day's that bad day's. I believe I can help the odds of this happening if I would just stay home.

We started our new Thursday night service last week. We're calling it 707 for Matthew 7:7, check it out!

Peace!

  

Simply

I've been thinking about what it means to live simply or to simply live. They go hand in hand now that I've been thinking about it. So what does that look like? Have you ever thought about reducing your carbon foot print? Do you even care? 

Here's some things I've either done or I'm trying to work into our lives.

I'm hanging our clothes out to dry. I know there are people out there that don't like the feel of line dried towels on their soft supple skin, but I personally think there is nothing better than a thirsty towel. Not to mention, that I'm drying my clothes with the help of nature. They smell good, iron up awesome, and it just makes me feel good to do it. 

Something else is recycling our trash. The city helps with this by providing awesome yellow trash cans and picking our stuff up every other week. I enjoy the fact that I have more recycle than trash and feel they should pick up recycle more often than trash! One things has really opened my eye's while we've been doing this recycling, it's how much we package stuff that is just silly and wasteful. If producers would cut down on packaging, we wouldn't have so much recycle to deal with.

These are just some things we've been doing to live simply, which helped us to see how important it is to simply live. To slow down and tune off the world and just be. It's hard to do when you work for a church and live beside small children, but it's the kids that help me see it's all about running as fast as you can, finding that turtle, being pushed on a swing, and eating blackberries. It's sitting on the back porch, watching the birds at the feeder and the ones that are living in the cucumber plants. It's about making enough dinner to last for a few more meals so you just heat it up. It's simple, everyday stuff that I'm doing to help us live in The presence. 

It's all we really have and all we've been promised. Yesterday is gone and we pray we learned those lessons. Tomorrow might not ever get here, so what are you waiting on? 

We're heading out today for some R&R. Just want to sit around and watch birds and eat good food and talk a slow story. Don't want no drama, or excitement, or other peoples issues. Just wanna be in the moment and simply live into it with all I've got!

Pickle Dance!

I have really good intentions, I promise I do! I try to get down here to post, but with the heat coming on, I get out in the yard or the church yard first thing in the morning and next thing I know, the day is gone, no post! 

Since I have been spending so much time out in the garden, let me share some pictures with you!

About 2 weeks ago!

I went out today and gathered the cuke vines to climb up the fence and saw a lot of yellow flowers! So upon closer inspection this is what I found!

Baby Cuke!

So that put's me in the kitchen in July boiling brine and filling jars! I am having issues with loading other pictures so you will have to come back later to see. I am off to do the pickle dance to celebrate the baby cuke!