No.626: The Wednesday Five #25

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A QUOTE

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

TABS OPEN IN MY BROWSER RIGHT NOW

• this skim coating tutorial
• this drywall sander that I’m debating purchasing (it should help with the mess, so seems worth the money!)
• a tutorial for making your old, stained potholders look new and fresh again
• this pig weight calculator
• thinking about stocking the freezer with a batch of these homemade “hot pockets”

A COOL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH

{Farm Girl Feeding Chickens, 1936.  Found here}

AN INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO

I don’t know the first thing about sewing your own clothing, but this video was incredible and so inspiring.  Definitely something I would like to dabble in someday.

AN UPDATE ON MY 2022 GOALS

+ Get serious about nutrition. // Welp, I fell off the wagon in a big way.  When I strained my neck and was in so much pain, I definitely ate my feelings in chocolate and cookies.  Not my proudest moment, but I’m ready to get back on the horse.
+ Read more nonfiction. // I’m more than halfway through Communism and the Conscience of the West and I just started Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture and We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State.
+ Make something beautiful with my own hands. // A bit of a stretch, but I made blueberry butter with my own hands!  I’m also back to working on my cross-stitch pillow project for the kids and am slowly hand-quilting a quilt top I started years ago.
+ Expand the homestead. // We’re still primarily in the planning stage, but looking forward to really kicking things off in March.
+ Aggressively work toward the goal of paying off our mortgage early. // Reselling has been super slow this month, but I’m grateful for any sale that comes through.  I’ve also been brainstorming little ways I can use this blog to further my goals without making it materialistic and salesy (two things I personally dislike).  We’ll see.
+ Improve my self-protection skills. // Nothing yet.