Jane H. Green Blog
Don’t Quit
I've been working on two different projects over the last few weeks. My DIY patio is to this point... see picture below. And my front porch is only a little further along than this last picture. I had rain delays and poor customer service to deal with when trying to...
Lessons Learned
I tend to bite off more than I can chew. A LOT! I have no idea why I decide I can do certain things that are beyond most women physically, but I jump right in and then find out I'm in over my head. For the last few weeks I've blogged about my journey with doing a DIY...
You Can Do Hard Things!
I've been working on installing a DIY patio now for several weeks. By myself, I dug out the area and transported the sod to the backyard where it can be tilled and incorporated into a deep slope. By Saturday, I had finished digging out all the sod and spent that day...
Patio Update
I am continuing to work on the patio area when it is not raining. I got a little more dug out today, but it was very hot, muggy, and buggy. The gnats were terrible. It seems lavender repels them a little, and I have a spray that I use to keep them away from my face as...
“Psychosomatic Health”
I've never heard this term, Psychosomatic Health, used before until I found a chapter about it in a book I recently mentioned on this blog. I'm taking a break from posting on my progress on digging out the patio area. I'm hoping that in two weeks I can post the...
Where There’s A Will There’s A Way
I love old sayings like the one in the title of today's blog. They can be an encouragement to work hard and not give up. I found this old saying in The Long Winter, a book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. As a child, and as an adult, these says flit through my mind frequently...
Understanding Negative People
I recently visited my parents as my dad celebrated his 90th birthday. He is a retired Southern Baptist Preacher who graduated from Fruitland Baptist Bible College in Hendersonville, N.C. I've mentioned in a previous blogpost that I was being allowed to take his old...
When The Preacher And His Wife Came to Visit The Crazy Cat Lady—Unannounced
If you read last week's post you know my history of how I was turned into a crazy cat lady against my will. You know how my porch looked with traps, feeding bowls, and cat hair on rocking chair cushions ect. You can't see the food bowls in this picture because they...