Welcome to my page! After retiring from the military my family and I relocated to our neck of the wood in rural Pennsylvania about 10 years ago. We were going to school and had to figure out how to make end meet on a shoe string budget. I learned that making some simple lifestyle changes saved us a ton of money. Then, I started having fun and looking for new ideas.  I started cooking from scratch, got rid of the chemicals in my house, made soap, grew a garden, raised chicken, turkeys and ducks and bees and shopped in thrift stores. My husband I are working full time now but still we continue our lifestlye of clean, simple living. I hope find as much joy as I have learning and creating.