BLOG 295 — Make Your Home A Paradise! 

“KITTING AROUND”
BLOG 295 — Make Your Home A Paradise! 
Don’t sleepwalk through life.
I hope to illuminate your Life with my Words.
The Wanderings of Kit (Do you wander or wonder?)
I WANT TO INSPIRE YOU TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY OR BETTER!

*** This blog looks best when viewed on a laptop or desktop computer.
*** The joy I experience in life is a wondrous thing!
*** I was hit by two different trucks, but I remain happy.
*** Going through a 37-day coma — Yikes!
*** What do you want to accomplish before you die?
*** If you read this through Facebook, see kitsummers.com/blog
*** I lived in my van for six years, visited all US national parks, and met Beth.
*** Beth and I married on 2/22/22 at 2:22.
*** I will have places to show you and tales to tell.
*** You will find secrets to unfold and good news!
*** What are you passionate about?
*** Only YOU know what is best for you.
*** Live for now! You will have had a great life when all your nows add up!
*** You cannot change the past. The future will come. All you have is now—always.
*** Have you seen >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFC5vLPDWRo

BE TAKEN AWAY WITH ME
ON WONDERFUL ADVENTURES!

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WHY I WRITE THIS BLOG
You will have many in your life who assist and teach; I hope I help guide you. Coaches like me wish to lighten your path toward excellence. It is up to you to make your journey toward merit. I am not trying to show you “the way”; I am trying to help you find “your way.” Writing this blog each week is new and different for me—I love it! In other words, I hope to continually add to your life and bring you to a higher level.
   
I WANT TO INSPIRE YOU WITH MY WORDS –WORDS HAVE POWER!
Are you accomplishing what you want before your eventual death?
You can (and should) make changes to improve your life — at any age.
Start today, and know that you can build the life you desire.
       
YOU ALREADY KNOW
You already know much about what I write, and I want to remind you of these ideas and show that my views can provide you with additional thoughts, along with yours, to help you.
   
MY EXPERIENCES
Much of what I write about is taken from my experiences.
I have gone through much.
I hope to spread ideas so that you can live a better life.
Remember — only you know what is best for you.
Don’t forget — you are only as young as the last time you changed your mind!

YES, YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO FIND YOUR SUCCESS!
IT SEEMS I LIVE AN INTERESTING LIFE.
THINK  — AND THEN THINK AGAIN.
WHAT NEW STORIES ARE YOU READY TO WRITE?    

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TOPIC FOR THIS WEEK — Your Home

Do you love where you currently reside? You can make changes to make your home environment fantastic! Starting with small things, you must overhaul your entire home to make it a paradise. Even with little money, you can make changes to make your home environment special.
   
Starting with growing things–plants are essential. Some may think that if you have a comfy bed and soft sheets, that’s all you need. Well, if you’re one of those people, then I have to say that this post is not for you. You just have to water plants at least twice a week.
 
Right now might be a great time to redesign your home and yard. Fall is bittersweet in gardening. While some of the most flavorful and delicious harvests of the year are happening now, it’s also time to face facts: if you’re in the northern hemisphere, days are getting shorter, and nights are getting colder.
   
All the flavor will just be a memory far too soon. But that’s okay because there are plenty of ways to keep the taste going during the cooler seasons. Many plants, including eatable plants, will grow in cold weather. Study and learn what you can plant in cold climates.
   
You can make wherever you live magnificent. Don’t just have a place to sleep each night; make this your paradise. Make your home nicer than the best hotels you have stayed at, somewhere you would most like to be.
       
Go to the street in front of your house and look back towards the house. You see this view so often; it must look fantastic! Start at the very front of your house. Get rid of anything that is not necessary; the first view must look splendid. Every time you look at the front of your home, you should see magnificence. Remember always to strive to make each detail splendid.
   
Paradise means something different to every person. Some people picture a porch overlooking the mountains while it’s snowing as paradise, while others picture a more conventional sunny beach with turquoise waters stretching out as far as the eye can see.
   
One thing you can do daily is to make your bed.
 
If you don’t have the time or money to travel to an exotic paradise destination this year, create your private paradise of tranquility in your house and yard. You might never have to leave your home again! You will find paradise with just a little landscaping, many plants, exotic framed pictures, flowery wallpapers, and a fun gallery wall of leaves.
   
Here are our top 10 suggestions for transforming your wonderful home and yard into an exotic destination. Make your home into your own personal paradise–your fantasy home!
 
1) Utilize many plants.
The secret to a lush, tropical paradise is having a lot of vegetation, such as plants, trees, and shrubs. Even better is to grow fruits and vegetables that you can eat. These are excellent for adding greenery, shade, and privacy, while smaller ground-covering plants add luxury to the space. Plant things that have different-colored greens.
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2) Garden Time!
Create a miniature botanical garden around your living room, bedroom, and/or kitchen to observe the benefits of plants for a house. Plants look dreamlike; you can pair them with exotic artwork, wooden furniture, and earthy decor.
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3) Add unique framed artwork.
Choose a statement-making framed image of anything lush and exotic. You’ll like how it looks on top of your bed in your bedroom or next to the coffee table in your living room. Choose a large picture with this theme; you’ll discover that it will instantly become the focal point of any space where you have the art.
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4) Pick a fancy and lavish wallpaper.
Start by decorating a wall in your living room, bedroom, or kitchen with fancy wallpaper to give the impression that it is constantly a hot season there so that you don’t have to go out for some trip for this experience. Instead, it gives you a feel of a tropical jungle, combined with some other exotic patterns.
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5) Select a vibrant print for your furnishings.
Anything in your fantasy house, including armchairs, pillows, covers, and curtains, may have a sweet, exotic print. You may combine them in different ways and place large plants around them, satisfying you and making you feel like a jungle like Tarzan or a paradise-like place where you also want or desire to be.
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6) Include a Water Feature
The sound of running water instantly induces peace and tranquility. Water sounds are essential to a peaceful home, whether from a swimming pool, stream, or babbling brook. However, you don’t have to spend much on a pool; inexpensive water features like a birdbath or homemade fountain will do. Water pumps are affordable and will do you well.
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7) Add stone elements
A stone path, planters made of stone, or stone walls can add a rustic and endearing touch to your paradisiacal landscape. Stone is a simple and inexpensive addition that adds charm. Covering stone with vegetation and ivy produces a softer, jungle-like effect, making your home an exotic paradise where you won’t feel bored or lonely.
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8) Build-in Comfortable Seating
You choose your layout. Furniture of the highest comfort is necessary for your opulent private retreat—your home. You want to entertain your guests while unwinding in comfort. To fit in with your lush surroundings, chairs with high-quality materials and neutral hues can be a good choice. Get some tree trunks, cut and shape them, and use them for seats. You can often find these used for a reasonable price.
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9) Install Gentle Lighting
Lanterns, string lighting, or illuminated paths can help you maintain tranquility and relaxation long after sunset. Lighting creates a delightful atmosphere and enables you to please guests at night—and it’s inexpensive.
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10) Sound
Remember your hearing. Play sounds of waterfalls, crashing waves, and forest sounds. This will add to the ambiance and make your home breathtaking.
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Your neighborhood plant store should have the most outstanding collection of plants and flowers. You might never want to go on vacation again if you have such a peaceful and lovely sanctuary in your home and backyard!
      Remember about going verticle. 
Go around your house and make adjustments to the smallest of things. Remember that less is more; your things must be used or a spender to see. While some people are going into productivity overdrive, others are taking time to quiet the noise and identify the significant parts of their lives.
 
You may want to look for used items to help improve your home. Look at eBay and Facebook Marketplace to find things. Spread the word with friends about what you are looking for, and you can find fabulous stuff. Always remember, a minimal look is best.
       
And think about how you can make the place you are at daily, the place you might have to be in more than you ever imagined, the best version for you. Go for magnificents! To all my fellow “high maintenance” folks, when you finally have a place (whether an apartment or an actual house), you want to feel like it’s your escape!
   
When you walk through your front door, you want to feel at peace and that all of the day’s stresses have finally faded. Your home should be your relaxing, happy spot.
   
AND THAT’S HOW IT SHOULD BE!
   
Even if you don’t have the grandest or most updated homes, it can still be transformed into your little slice of heaven. Say goodbye to the days when you could only relax by going to a spa for a few hours. Your home will relax you completely! Knowing where to start, you can get most of those serene, cool vibes in your home daily!
 
You know the feeling when you open the door at a hotel. You are treating yourself to splendor, to paradise. Your home should be more important than this idea of a motel. So, you can always have this joy of paradise! All your friends will be substantially impressed.
   
Here are eight easy tips for creating that sweet getaway of your dreams. Once you create this home escape, you may never want to leave, so make sure you do all of your errands before going home for the day.
1 Use Essential Oils (Or Candles)
2 Plants, Plants, and More Plants–include vegetables.
3 Downsize Your Junk (Less is MORE!)
4 Have Natural Light.
5 Pillows Are Your Friend. Not too many, though.
6 Brighten Up Your Décor
7 Make Your Bedroom Feel Like it is your personal paradise.
8 Set the Mood Whenever You Come Home.
   
I may be coming by soon for a visit.
So, start today to make your home a magnificent paradise where you can be yourself excellently!
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WORDS TO INSPIRE YOU!
Inspirational quotes and sayings have a unique ability to change the way we feel about life and can change our thoughts. They are attractive, challenging, and essential on our path to joy and happiness and finding ways to inspire ourselves and others.
     
THE BURST!
Inspirational quotes and ideas give us a quick and timely burst of wisdom to regain our focus, offering the inspiration needed for the day or occasion. I hope the words below bring a smile to your face and drive you to make this day and every day a fantastic event.
   
BE POSITIVE!
Just as positive words can make someone smile, and a well-timed amusing quote can make someone laugh, your thoughts react to the world in real-time. Have this control! You have complete control over only one thing in the universe—YOUR THINKING!—and that’s where motivational quotes come in!
     
“YOU”
How you think and feel about yourself, including your beliefs and expectations about what is possible, determines everything in your life, and it all derives from your quality of thinking. Use quotes to move ahead in your life.
   
SELF-TALK IS SO ESSENTIAL—THINK RIGHT!
To stay motivated, you have to use each day as an opportunity to improve and get closer to your goals. It might sound like a lot of work—and with your busy schedule—next to impossible. But you can do it! Motivational words, yes, are just words. But they are positive words; they will keep you on track.
   
QUOTES WILL BENEFIT YOU!
Positive and inspiring quotes can be like sunshine on a cloudy day. They inject optimism into our thoughts, brighten our mood, and help us focus on the good in life. They remind us that even in the face of adversity, we can see the silver lining and embrace a positive attitude.
 
PEARLS OF WISDOM
In a world filled with challenges and indecisiveness, the power of inspirational quotes cannot be exaggerated. These pearls of wisdom uniquely uplift our spirits, can spark positive change, and fuel our motivation often when we need it most.
     
WORDS WILL CHANGE YOU!
The correct motivational quote can change you and things—helping you ditch the excuses, escape your comfort zone, and take action. Read these words with an open mind and learn to improve your life.
     
THESE QUOTES
When you read these quotes, you’ll also realize that many other people worldwide are experiencing these feelings. These feelings make you think you’re the only person who could feel this bad. But you’re not. Lots and lots of other people feel bad, too. This is the irony of it. You don’t want other people to feel crappy, but it does make you feel better or at least comforted to know that other people feel just as bad as you.

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I HOPE THE FOLLOWING WORDS ADD TO YOUR LIFE >>
   
“Less is better–For your home and your life.”
—Kit Summers
   
“Have nothing in your home that you don’t know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
—William Morris
   
“One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house.”
—Patsy Stone
 
“Be faithful to your taste because nothing you like is ever out of style.”
—Billy Baldwin
   
“Design is coming to grips with one’s natural lifestyle and place.
Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.”
—Albert Hadley
   
“Decorating golden rule:
Live with what you love.”
—Unknown
   
“A designer knows when he has reached perfection, not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antione de Sainte-Exupery
   
“Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”
—Salvador Dali
   
“Everything has a place,
and everything in its place.”
—Unknown
     
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Design is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams
   
“Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible, and then get on with living. There’s more to life than decorating.”
—Albert Hadley
   
“All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in and to have, so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.”
—William Morris
   
“If you wait until you have enough money to decorate and make your home your own, it will never happen. You are missing the point if you wait until you can afford everything new. The old, the new, the hand-me-down, the collected, the worn but loved things in your home make it your own.”
—Stacy Risenmay
   
“Home is the nicest word there is.”
—Laura Ingalls Wilder
   
“She knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions and never condescended to construct a decoration.”
—Anthony Trollope
   
“Decorate your home.
It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it is.”
—Charles M. Schulz
       
“Design is a funny word.
Some people think design means how it looks.
But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s how it works.”
—Steve Jobs
   
“Behind every attractive room, there should be a good reason.”
—Sister Parish
     
“When working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
—Richard Buckminster Fuller
   
“All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” —Philip Johnson
   
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
—Leonardo Da Vinci
   
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”
—Charles Eames

YOU MUST IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR THINKING,
YOU CHANGE YOUR LIFE’S DIFFERENTIA—SOMETIMES INSTANTLY!
COMPOSE A NOBLE BOOK AND WRITE A BEST-SELLER.
YOU ARE AMAZING—PLAY YOUR PART!
YOU CAN TURN THINGS AROUND FAST AND ACHIEVE YOUR
WILDEST DREAMS NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE!

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MY DAILY JOTTINGS >>
Each week goes by so quickly, don’t you think?
It seems like time is going by faster and faster.
You must live joyfully, daily, for each day!
     
Do you know what you did last Monday?
Do you remember what you ate for dinner last Thursday?
Keep track of your doings for a few weeks; you will see your time differently.
Remember, the quality of your life depends on what you do each day.
   
10/26–I don’t like awakening at 12:30 am, but I could not go back to sleep again. Later, it was off to the local farmers’ market. There are many people there, some expensive vegetables. Some colorful tomatoes,
   
Cindy did her aerial fabric workout at the Circus Center, where about 11 people were doing the workout. Flying on fabric was developed in 1991 in France. Before this, a rope was used for flying; this skill is considerable in the circus centers I have seen.
 
Costco is somewhat close, so we picked up some items.
   
In the evening, we went here >> https://backcountrypizzaandtaphouse.info/
It’s some of the best pizza I have experienced.
   
10-27–Slept until about 3am; that’s a good sleep for me.
   
Cindy gets lessons on her Chello each week. I have seen advancement from her in time.
   
Cindy and I came up to a large mountain. There are many trails, many people here. Cindy went out for a walk, I remained in the vehicle. My stomach has been upset today so better I just sit here.
   
Cindy is out hiking, so I am voice typing using my phone. This is quite a better way to type than using my fingers as usual, so I might do more of this in the future.
   
This evening, we went to the juggling at Circus Center. I did my 3 club trick workshop and saw many jugglers advance. Also, I taught Cindy some skills, including juggling rings. With rings, the key is to catch the ring high, bring your arm down, and then bring it up to throw it. That gives you more time to do more rings.
   
10/28–Cindy quickly decided to fly to NYC, where her parents live. She is leaving today and will return on Thursday. She has some Circus Center events for which she has to be here.
   
10/29–I went to Costco and Walmart to get some things. Cindy is away until Wednesday afternoon, so I am cleaning up, reducing, and making her home look lavish.
     
10/30–I stayed alone at Cindy’s because she is in NYC now. Arriving this evening, she made a quick trip to see her parents, who are getting older. It was significant she was able to arrange this trip.
   
I’ve been writing and working on the blog; I hope you appreciate it.
   
10/31–Happy Halloween.
I hope I don’t scare myself.
   
Cindy and I had a mix-up, but we have sorted that out and are good once again.
   
Where will Kit go next?
I’m here at Cindy’s until the anniversary of the Circus Center on Nov 16.  
Maybe I will head toward Florida after that.
I don’t know.
How about you?
Can I visit you for a time?
I need a direction.
I am scared (or, should I say, excited.)
   
11/1–It was pretty cold last night, so I drove south. I was on my way to Texas, where it was warm. I’m back at Cindy’s now and will be helping her around the house and at https://bouldercircuscenter.net/ 

DO SOMETHING NEW–DAILY!
THEN, KEEP DOING NEW FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

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THE GARDEN THIS WEEK

I keep this section about gardening in.
I do like the skill and hope you do, too.
Winter now, but there are still things you can grow.
And, remember about inside gardening.
     
A self-supportive life can be a better life.
A garden would be a part of that life.
You must look into it.
   
Because I am back on the road, there will be no more words about the garden.
I do hope Beth keeps it up.
I did a lot of work establishing our vegetable garden.
   
When I drove the van seven years ago,
I grew stuff under the sunroof windows on the top.
I may start that up my van garden again.
You will find out, of course.

START YOUR GARDEN TODAY!
IT MAY BE NECESSARY FOR YOUR LIFE!

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ALL OUR LIFE, WE MUST CHALLENGE OURSELVES!
YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK >> 

Examine your entire abode.
Make it look magnificent in look and feel.
Doing this will keep you happier.
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NEXT BLOG >>

What do you do in your downtime?
Learn what should be best for you.
Where will Kit end up going next?
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AND WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING FOR YOUR UPCOMING WEEK?