Our favorite speedy deck staining trick (from July).

We have some red too..Looking back towards the house.

You can see the soy fields here are starting to change.Many of the other fields around here are already completely brown and are being harvested.. A blue sky and the barn peeking out over the browning corn fields.Can’t wait to watch all that corn being harvested soon!I did an easy little craft a couple of weeks ago when I was setting up my fall mudroom and I’m pretty much in love with it.

I felt like I was making real authentic country fall decorations now that we live in a real authentic country house, but then it occurred to me that I could have been making these all these years when I lived in the city, I just never thought of it.. Wanna make some with me?So, just go out back to the cornfield and grab yourself about 6 ears of corn….

You don’t have a cornfield out back?.

OK, I’m bragging.We still had a good harvest this year though, so at least there’s that.. I’ve been up to my 15 minute game for the last couple of weeks and it’s amazing what I’ve been able to accomplish, really not spending any time out there at all.

One day I might pull a patch of weeds, one day plant one little plant, one day trim a thing or two, one day pick up some extra bricks laying around..When you do this, you’re not really tapping into the power of what can be done in 15 minutes, you’re tapping into the power of the fact that there are 365 days a year and the power of a habit.

If you do something, anything, towards what you’re working on, just a tiny bit each day, you will make even more progress than you will if you do a “jump in feet first go all out Saturday afternoon then do nothing the rest of the week” kind of work session.I dare you not to impress yourself..