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Watching the Grass Grow
Here at Avril Cottage, Spring makes a slow and welcome appearance. So many blogs and vlogs showcase their worlds in full bloom before the last of the snow has even left our gardens. The grassy lawn is visibly greener today, lush and thickening. The nourishing rain ended this morning, yesterday was spent indoors cooking, drinking…
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Waters Of Life
The rain has returned to the Canadian prairies, welcome and cleansing! The birds think so too. Here at Avril Cottage there is a fully modern kitchen, but you will not find a dishwasher anywhere in sight. Dishes are washed in small batches by hand which conserves both water and electricity. Outdoors, water barrels are located…
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Frugality with Abundance
Welcome to Avril Cottage! Here we practice frugal living, but frugality does not mean scarcity or deprivation. The world has us conditioned to believe we need all sorts of material things to be happy, but this is false–the corporate lie of commercialism. Look, the bumble bees are out and about in full force pollinating the…
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