You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. - Author Unknown

I can't think of a better therapy to prescribe - for any of us really - than to go and create a garden, to tend it each day, and water it, weed it, and share it with someone else, whether it is someone that happens to walk by, or someone to help you in it. Dig that dirt, tell it your troubles, plant your seeds, and wait for spring, mourn over the plants that die, and watch as leaves fall. Watch as the years turn and marvel over your garden. Plant trees and flowers and vegetables to remind you of friends or relatives no longer with you. Pick the flowers when they bloom and remember them tenderly. Cook the recipes that loved ones nurtured you with. Create a wonderful - marvellous soul place for yourself... over the years.

shredding oranges and scrubbing the floor

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D.H. Lawrence

My theory on housework is...

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck

I love Erma Bomeck, I just wish I could be as easy going as the quote above. Unfortunately, when I sit down, even if I have been busy tiding, there is a part of me that notices the dust, and the things that still need doing, and it's usually about that time that my very household efficient sister-in-law comes to visit.

Ah well.

To view more pics for the house above click here.

Family faces are magic mirrors...

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. - Gail Lumet Buckley

Every house where love abides

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
- Henry Van Dyke

I think I've found the next Frangipani House

I think I've found the next Frangipani House, here it is in Byron Bay,

now all I need is the $8 million to buy it... to see more pictures, you'll have to go to...
Real Estate.com.au

Clear Vision

I loved this email from Daily Word.com today on Clear Vision

I establish peace, love and abundance in my thoughts and in my life.
Just as I may allow clutter to accumulate in a closet or drawer, I may allow thoughts and feelings to accumulate in my heart and mind. Some of these thoughts may be useful, but some may be error thoughts that crowd out space for new ideas.
Today I do not delay the task of looking and seeing with clear vision what is true and what is error. I hold my thoughts up to the light of the Christ within me and claim only those thoughts that resonate peace, love and abundance. I discard and clear out any thoughts of fear, lack, disease or unworthiness. Clearing frees me. By establishing peace, love and abundance in my thoughts, I allow God's good to fill my mind and heart.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.--Psalm 51:10