This is Just The Beginning !

 Welcome.  Won't you come in and sit awhile ?  How about a cup of Earl Gray to start off ?  We here, at the Dusty Cottage, are so glad you stopped by.  I, myself have so many things to share with you and it's important you are comfortable and happy to be here.  So sit back, relax and enjoy.

This is my front door.  Isn't it just cool ?  My Jim made it.  He knows I love anything that has to do with a cottage so he rounded off the top.  I just love them.  Now that you are at my front door you might as well join us.

One of the things I wanted to share is weight loss.  Have you had any lately?  No, well me neither.  Now here is the good news.  I just had the pleasure of reading a book (I know what you are thinking, Not another diet !) about diets exercise etc., well you get the picture.  What was different about this book is.....the author had no diet to follow.  What, you say?  That is right.  In fact he stated a few facts I would like to share with you.  Let's face it diet plans that limit you to certain foods, do not work, for that matter any diet plan no matter what the foods are involved do not work.  I will say the closest one would be Weight Watchers.  That is because it doesn't really limit you to certain food and it's everyday food.  You don't have to by their products.  I know, you can as I have bought them from WW but what I am saying is, that is your choice as you can make the food yourself.  Getting back to what I was talking about....  We, are the ones who need to change.  Our behavior, attitude, and where we eat.  I know I have a habit of eating in the evening, yes, watching tv.  We know that is the worst.  He states sometimes we eat our of boredom or we think we are hungry when what we are is thirsty.  Just some thoughts to think about.  I will have more later.  Interesting don't you think.
It's very cold here this morning.  We had to cover our citrus trees as lots of frost.  Our animals are doing fine.  The house cats, Elviria, Eleanor and Edgar are fine.  The house dogs, Tasha, Bella and Olivia are also fine as all of them are in out of the cold.  Now our outside animals I do worry about even though they do have a shelter to stay in.  We have out goats, Alice and Rosalie. Our rooster, Tweet Tweet, who has beautiful colorful feathers. Seven chickens and one baby chick.  Plus we have 7 pigeons and one baby pigeon.  And last but not least we have Elvis, who is a black cat that showed up one day as a little kitty.  We have tried to get him to come in the house but he refuses.  So he stays in the shelter with the goats.  Will be talking about our animals at varies times so wanted you to know them.

I have started getting plants for the yard.  They are so pretty in the stores.  Here is my plan.  Everytime I go to the grocery store I can buy two plants.  I have decided to only get yellow and purple flowers.  Maybe some blue.  Just want to have some kind of a theme.  I love those colors.  Several years ago I had a Moon Garden.  It was beautiful.  At that time we had a little pond in our back yard and I only bought white or silver plants to put around it.  When we had a full moon it was like it was glowing.  I just love it.  So I'm deciding where to put my yellow and purple flowers as they are still inside, it's just too cold to put them outside yet. 

Another thing I am going to do is go to the Farmers Market, I joined or I should say signed up for "Local Harvest".  They let you know where the farmers markets and organic farms are in your area.  I'm very excited about that as I have discovered some in my area very close by so this should be good.  My Jim is also going to plant some veggies for us. So the spring seems very promising for us

I have discovered to just Believe and everything works out.  Here's to a Healthy, Happy New Beginning.  Talk to you soon.  Tootles