Sustainable Me - Space for Creativity and Backyard Bunnies

 I found these two rocking chairs while shopping at Aldi's.  Only $25 each.  After looking around and online - I thought this was a great price for porch rocking and relaxing.    I also found a terrific deal on Amazon for a $65 Fire pit.  Assembly was required - but it wasn't too bad, and thankfully everything was included that was needed for the assembly.  This fire pit came with some great accessories - even a plastic cover for bad weather.   A fire on a crisp Spring night with a crisp apple cider in hand.  Enjoying this from my new rocking chair.  I did realize though that, I will have to put down some kind of stone circle of pavers or a gravel pit somewhere for the fire pit, for safety concerns.  That still needs to be done.   We are going to have a lot of fun with this - roasted marshmallows, smores. and hot dogs coming up!

I have been thinking about my studio planning, and I realize that I also want to include the backyard space as an extension of my studio.  I think that the whole back yard and a garden can be a source of  inspiration to me, and it has always been important to me to have that.  I am sure that the backyard bunnies will enjoy it as well.  It is just that I am beginning anew, in a new place, and starting over so to speak.   I walked out in the back yard and realized that we have quite a few black ants and large ant hills - even right up around where the mission fig tree is growing.  I have also noticed some wasps, and a bee hive in a tree in the front yard.  So, I think my first challenge is to decide how to handle these issues.  Below, I have posted some photos of what I'm thinking of for the space so far.  I really like this stone circle and firepit and the adirondack chairs.  I would like to have a space like this to the left of...

 Well - Amazon and FedEx pulled through and this was sitting on my porch when I arrived home today!  It is pretty heavy!  I managed to drag it carefully into the house, but will have to have some help taking it to the studio and setting it up!  I may can get it down there by using the dolly - but it would be wise to have help.  I don't want to damage it just trying to get it in there, and I think I want to wait until the work on the walls and ceiling is finished.  Installing this can be the piece de resistance! Best gift of the day!!  There is hope and new life from death!  The Mission Fig tree was not looking good this winter, and I thought maybe all was lost, but I see new growth!  I hope that it grows tall and strong this season.  it will be several years, before figs are produced again - but I love this tree, and am hopeful that we will have figs again someday.  And the bunnies are happy today as well.  I saw two of t...

I have always loved bunnies.  And they have shown up every place that I have lived.  As an adult, I discovered just a couple of years ago that I do have Native American heritage from a South Texas tribe.  But even before that discovery, my aunt told me about Animal spirits and Animal medicine, and encouraged me to become more aware of my interactions with nature.  So over the years, I have paid attention, and I do believe that bunnies are strong medicine for me.  At this particular house, the bunnies are abundant!  Tonight I saw three of them enjoying and playing in the back yard.  I love to watch them, and am so happy that they like it here.  I think they really love the studio and have made a home in the spaces underneath.  We have an older dog named Winston, and even he lets them be.  He just watches them and seems to co-exist peacefully with them.  When he was younger, he would have chased them down.  But now he just wat...