Country Living Simple Country Wisdom

Country Living Simple Country Wisdom: 501 Old-Fashioned Ideas to Simplify Your Life by Susan Waggoner          Paperback Book:  224 pages          

I LOVED THIS BOOK!    Susan Waggoner offers so many excellent tips here you will love it, too.   She offers ideas, time, money and planet savers in such fun, readable and beautifully illustrated ways that don’t inundate you with a barrage of more “helps,” she brings the reader time tested by our grandparents ways that take us all back to basics when people made wonderful tasting recipes from scratch and when they cleaned by combining and preparing ingredients they had on hand, vinegar, salt, oil, etc. items easier on the planet and our health simple country knowledge for a less frantic simpler life.   She tells you how to and what to plant to attract birds and butterflies to your sanctuary (home).   She presents all of her time-saving less stressful gems in such easy to understand language that you never get left behind or feel like you are reading an astro physics text.    Like sitting in the kitchen chatting with an old friend or relative, you can feel the love in what she is sharing.   She lovingly brings you info that will serve you for life.   Swig a glass of sweet tea, maybe have yourself a slice of chocolate cake to go along with it.   This book will leave you with that satisfied feeling of a truly pleasant experience.   All of us should be issued a copy of this book at birth so we will have it memorized by the time we are adults and making out own home the place we want it to be and a blessed place that offers comfort like a hug to all who enter.   I read the library’s copy but I am going to have to buy myself a copy.   This is definetly a go-to book so often that if you have a copy, you’ll likely wear it out from referring to it so often.   The chapter that tells about food will be a life saver for when guests drop in unannounced and you want to show them some hospitality, but, what have you got in the fridge or cabinet that you can combine to whip up something good and quick to serve – viola!  Susan Waggoner has the most excellent suggestions on that.  Trust me, read this book, you will love it as much as I do.   Like an angel on your shoulder turning yikes moments into ahhhhh relief moments.   Gotta smile thinking of all the great stuff here.  Find out for yourself, you will be glad you did.   I have learned so much.   And if you have been following my blogs – you know I love to learn new things.   Mwa, mwa, mwa, mwa – blowing kisses to Susan Waggoner, Author and Homemaker Extraordinaire!