*You may find a pair of shoes in the bread drawer.
*Feather dusters are only useful as an accessory with a French maid's costume. Otherwise they are just displacing dust.
*You learn to live with less.
*The outdoors and indoors are one and the same.
*There are certain times of the day when the sun casts its rays on every corner—a perfect time to sweep.
*Friends and neighbors will stop by and stay awhile.
*The kitchen stove is always being put to use.
*Castaways will find a home somewhere.
*Neighborhood pets sometimes consider your home their own.
*There are no rules for how to grow the perfect garden
-Jacqueline deMontravel of Romantic Homes-
