3 Tips for Building Your Pantry
As you work on creating and stocking your pantry as a prudent and prepared homemaker, you’ll have to make all kinds of decisions about what to buy. I have three important tips I’d like to …
4 Must-Know Tips About Stocking a Pantry
We recently read Farmer Boy aloud with Caroline. Have you ever noticed how a significant portion of books like this revolve around food? Throughout the entire book, the Wilder family is planting it, …
5 Reasons To Keep Written Pantry & Emergency Notes
In 3 Reasons To Become a Prudent & Prepared Homemaker, we looked at the importance of developing a plan for your home including why you need a pantry and why you need to prepare for difficult …
3 Reasons To Become A Prudent & Prepared Homemaker
"She watches over the activities of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness." Proverbs 31:27
Are We Already In The Next Great Depression?
This was written April 23, 2020. As with the March 18, 2020 post Cheerfully Adjusting In A Coronavirus World, I have not updated it and so it reflects my thinking at that time. This is a deliberate …
Keeping Your Home Cozy in an Emergency
The goal of writing on both of my websites is to help you create a life of peace, understanding, and joy for you and your loved ones. This is the theme in the various parts of A Quiet Simple Life …
The New Madrid Earthquakes – Past and Future {Sallie Video}
The New Madrid Fault is a significant threat to those of us who live in the central part of the United States. In this video, I talk through the history of The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 and …
Mother’s Cheer Uplifted Family During Great Depression
This is such a lovely remembrance by a woman named Venus Bardanouve from Harlem, Montana. It’s now gone from the public website, but I managed to find it in the Wayback Machine. So many of these …
“Back to Basics” Teaches Old-Fashioned Skills
Although I’m not able to implement many of them in my real life, I love learning about skills of the past. Books that explain how our ancestors made the most of everything around them inspire me …
Preparing For The Storm
I think Caroline must be part kitty cat as she can clearly sense the approaching storm. (The forecasters are predicting the Midwest equivalent of a category 3 hurricane type event of historic …