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Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
1y ago
Previous home address Beloved readers, As some of you noticed, I have been quiet as of late. I was struggling to find something to say that was both interesting to me and not just more noise on the internet. While you will be the ultimate judge of the worthiness of the content, it makes me happy to be able to share the new blog with you now. This will be my last blog post here. From now on, you can find me writing at SimpleDelights.art. Come on over and join us there! PS. Deep thanks to those of you that told me that you missed my voice and encouraged me to start writing again. It means more t ..read more
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Using the Metro
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
We have a ticket to ride. The public transportation in St. Louis area is less than perfect. But it is improving. Now that youngest son and I have settled into our new apartment, we are beginning to explore the area. There is a Metro Link station 2 blocks from out apartment. Here we have access to the Blue Line, the Red Line and 3 different bus routes. Youngest son is planning to attend a university in north St. Louis county and two of the Metro stations on the Red Line are on that campus. This makes his commute to school a 20 minute train ride. He has also been taking the Amtrak train up to ..read more
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Bed in a Box
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
The overnight guest is not in the box. We do not have a spare bedroom or a sofa, but still host the occasional overnight guest. This is my solution: a gel foam mattress, pillow and a warm comforter. With a little sqooshing, they all fit in the box. I’ve had the inflatable beds before, but each developed a hole after just a few uses. And said hole was discovered as we were trying to blow up the bed at 10pm. This set up is compact, portable and leak proof. Zzzzzzz. [Beloved readers-I have finally transitioned into my retired life of writing and working on hand-picked sustainability project ..read more
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New Apartment Living Room
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
Since the public spaces of this apartment are open plan, this is the living area, technically not a living room. Some of my long time readers will recognize these red chairs, which I gave to middle son a couple of years ago. They did not fit into the apartment he moved into this past January and I was glad to have them back. I like the idea of ownership being more fluid and there being sharing within a family or social group. The black mirrored cabinet is from my Springfield apartment and moved with me to mom’s house and the most recent studio apartment. I use it to house the wireless router ..read more
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Squirrel Guests
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
My hand is there just to give you a sense of scale. As I mentioned before, when the weather gets very cold, the Saint Louis Friends (Quaker) meeting house is a warming shelter for homeless folks. And it seems that we are a warming shelter for squirrels as well. They have chewed through a couple of the window sills, gotten into the walls, and in a couple rooms chewed through drywall to get to the stored food, or just a warmer place to spend the winter. This is not the first year this has occurred. So I checked with our pest management company who monthly sprays for roaches, mice, spiders. The ..read more
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Sake and Cherry Blossoms
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
I’m not sure, these might be plum blossoms. Last night, The Missouri Botanical garden hosted a fundraiser event called Sake and Sakura where the public were invited to enjoy the just blooming cherry trees in the garden during the evening. As further enticement, the evening could include up to six samples of Sake and a tour of the tea house island, which is usually closed to the public. Of course I went, because, well– Tea house. Cherry blossoms. Sake. It is almost impossible to find a bad view in the Japanese Garden. A friend, who is also a member of the Garden accompanied me and we stroll ..read more
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Resale Shopping
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
Tangerine jacket and long skirt with pockets. One of our local resale shops was having a sale and I could use a couple more summer items, so I went. With resale shops, sometimes what you find is not exactly what you went in for, which just adds to the adventure of the day, I suppose. I like shopping resale for the following reasons: 1) it keeps useable items from being discarded. 2) it costs less money to get clothes this way. 3) generally the clothing that makes it to resale is higher quality-fast fashion stuff shows wear quickly. 4) I prefer natural fabrics to synthetics and a lot of what ..read more
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Spring Cleaning
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
Random stuff under the stairwell. The Saint Louis Quaker meeting house is also a warming shelter in the winter for homeless folk. There is a community organization that coordinates churches in the area that provide this service. There are a lot of moving parts to the work: providing the space, cooking, cleaning, working with the local authorities. There are hundreds of people working every year to provide this service. Our church has space for 40 people when the weather is severely cold. We move the benches out of the way and set up cots in the sanctuary, and it becomes their sanctuary for t ..read more
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Ha!
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
Under cover! Concrete yard decorations are a whole category of silly unto themselves. These two pretentious gentleman flank the front entrance to our new apartment. Their faux grandeur has amused me from the first day. What better way to mock them than with accessories on April Fool’s Day. ( I could be up for themed holiday apparel for every season with very little encouragement. ) This fashionable jazz cat with his soul patch is ready to break out ..read more
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Single Use Plastics
Small House, Big Life
by Fawn
3y ago
Single use plastic bag I’m pretty vigilant about not using single use plastics, but they still find their way into my home, most commonly via food packaging. I take my cloth bags to the grocery store, my stainless steel tumbler to the coffee shop or just filled with tap water when I am out and about. Shopping second-hand eliminates some of this single use plastic influx, but I still end up with a distressing amout of plastic in my home. The above plastic bag arrived in my home, wrapping a house-warming present from a beloved friend. So rather than a rude, “Eeewww! Plastic!” response to my gi ..read more
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