The Frugal Farm Living life deliberately

Yesterday I chopped off my hair. Well, not me personally. Erin at the salon did the actual chopping. I have never had hair this short before. But I am happy with the results, and need to spend some quality time learning how to style it quickly.

Then I tried to get a good picture of the haircut and got all of these instead.

Though we rarely see them,
We know when they've been here.
The unripe fruit goes missing;
They're very hungry deer.

I made another pair of shorts from a holey pair of jeans and while I was at it, I snapped pictures and put together a quick tutorial on how to do the cheater ribbon hem. You'll find it at flickr.

As I hitched up my pants again, I thought that the fact that all my pants are getting too big is a good thing, right? And that made me start thinking of good problems to have.

Like pants that are too big because you are being successful at losing weight (I've lost 29 pounds!).

Having to preserve food because your garden is so productive.

Having to clean my house because I have a wonderful family who lives in it (and makes it dirty!).

Yesterday Meredith posted about having too much produce from her CSA share. Also a good problem, I think.

Do you have any good problems?

We had a heck of a thunderstorm roll through this weekend. It came with hail over 1/2" in diameter and buckets of rain and lots of wind, as well. It made us decide that we'll pay someone to put gutters up on the addition before we pay anyone else to do anything else.

strawberries on ice

handful of hail scooped from behind the house  read more »