Georgia's Pear Ambrosia Jam Day

Are you getting a repetitious, even a boring impression that I LOVE my home and what it holds for me by now? Good! lol ha-ha 
I love to share my rainy autumn day in Georgia, today.
Today is beautiful! 
To me, it's what NOT to love on a rainy autumn day here in Georgia?

Yes, I tend to focus and share so much about my life centered on my home, my husband and my simple heart here at our Yellow Cottage. That's just simply who I am and what I love most, to share most!  I am truly a simple home-girl in my comfies when I am in my barbie-size cottage kitchen and LOVIN' IT so much!

A rainy day like this today is so special for me to slumber in bed just a little longer this morning before I get to harvest my last ripe pears to filled a bushel full.

Nowhere to rush out on a day like this but to slow down and to sit down on my porch to peel each pear while my Teddy Bear always sits next to me for company. 





The rain has been steadily and gently watering my gardens nicely all day. Thank you, Mother Nature! I love rainy days because I know my gardens love it too!

From time to time, I glanced over my working hands, peeling the sticky pears over my lap as I take in my home, my stillness, my peace to just be with today's dark skies. Simple pleasure to look out over at my gardens and to see beyond our plain two acres of open pastures, feeling the cool wet rain on my face and hear the rain drops against our tin roof porch, I feel all of life in today's presence.  It's a perfect day!

I see our working white truck parked nearby a pile of woods as my next task for another day.  My thought wished my husband was there right then. He often works on our many chores around our cottage with his white truck. 


I miss him. I miss his presence here today to be with me in my stillness. I miss all the noises he makes when he works from one project to the next project, around our home. I miss his labor of love for us, today as I sat here. 


I miss hearing his country western music he often plays on the radio to keep him company while he works, sweats and always with his oversized cup of water, sitting nearby.

My true love is presence in my heart today as he is working hard in a corporate office for us so I can be at home.  If only he is here to complete that perfect picture on this rainy day for me. So, I set that happy thought aside with knowing that he will be home soon.  
I even love the heartaches of missing my husband today with the excitements to meet up at the airport on Friday and meet our friends for the evening in the city. My heart is so full of life, just "being" still.

Well, I got back to "doing" my tasks at hand to get these pears ready to be cooked. 



I brought them inside and chopped them up to cubed sizes; add my pineapple cubes and orange slices before I can simmer them slowly for the next 4-5 hours before I get to put them in jars.

So, on this rainy day, I am enjoying making my jams from our orchard.  I make it every year, whether it is figs, blueberries or pears each year. I enjoy sending them out to friends and family for the holidays to eat them from our yellow cottage farm. I am making my Pear Ambrosia Jam, today.

I am not an expert or even good at making preservatives or jams but I do attempt at it each year to honor them and then give them away to others to enjoy. These fruits have been given to us so abundantly so I feel bad if I don't at least attempt to use what God has given to us on our abundant little lot of land in Georgia. 

I get so much joy of home and the simple spiritual connection in the ritual when I make them. The smell of  cooking pears on my stove has permeated our little cottage on this rainy day while I write my blog about it.

I am CENTERED and at PEACE to be with myself. To be so content, safe and grounded at home in this simple way on this rainy autumn day in Georgia is a greatest blessing for me.  


I am truly living my happiness, my simple life that I have dreamed so often. 
I am standing in the midst of my dream.

My Teddy Bear is always near to keep me company

 With Love & Happiness,

Hai

What's your Simply Meaningful?

Yesterday, I watched a show on "Braveheart Women", on defining what's your "simply meaningful" and I knew it right away for me. 


It's different for everyone but it reminds us to take note in the simple pleasures of life.

Since I have been traveling so much in this past year and a half with my commute corporate husband, being home on a regular basis this pass 4 weeks has brought me EVEN MORE meanings & appreciation!

I truly appreciate having my simple daily routine to be home more than anywhere else on earth.
I appreciate going to my closet and not to my suitecase.
I appreciate making my coffee from the same coffee pot and reach for the same cup and creamer.
I appreciate waking up and walking outside in my pjs to say good morning to all my happy dogs with my hot coffee in hand.

I appreciate giving them their morning love and treats each day. And while they eat, I enjoy my coffee at our picnic table under this oak tree, like this morning.

I am grateful for what's in front of me, more & more! 

HOME is my "simply meaningful" to my soul! I am willing to give up everything else to keep my peace.

So, what's your simply meaningful?

With Love & Meaningful,


Hai