Creating My Ideal Life: An Abundance of Trees!
Posted by Louise on Mar 1, 2010
Creating my Ideal Life is so exciting. This is a time where I really sit in the driving seat. I get to choose my goals, what’s important to me, what to do and when I do it. And the really exciting thing is this: it’s working. I am actively creating my Ideal Life and abundance is raining down on me absolutely effortlessly.
I want to share this latest windfall of dazzling abundance with you. Just over a year ago my family and I moved to a new life in France. This was a planned step in creating my Ideal Life. We just love it here. The food, the weather, the people, the culture, the language. We love everything about it.
We live in a wonderful village with medieval houses (great for my husband who is a stone-carver!). Anyway, the villages here are totally self-sufficient as regards the production of wood for home-heating. Every year the glorious deciduous forests surrounding the village are scanned for trees which need to be harvested as they are either of commercial value or cut down because they are sub-standard. The resulting timber is divided out amongst the households who wish to use a renewable, sustainable source of fuel to heat their homes.
Just guess what our timber allocation for 2010 was? We were given 26 mature trees, including oak and beech plus 16 crowns (what remains after they cut and sell the valuable trunk of the tree). Such an abundance of timber. We will be able to heat our home for free for years to come AND we will season and dry the better logs to make authentic beams and flooring. All this absolutely for free. For nothing.
Of course we are going to have to do the felling and harvesting ourselves according to very strict conservation guidelines. Yet again, the goddess of Abundance smiled upon us. We have been befriended by a single man with a passion for forestry. He will fell the trees and use his tractor to transport the heavy timber down to our yard for seasoning. All this in exchange for a shared meal and a few of my famous fruit pies. He likes my cooking and we enjoy his company. Now we will learn how the French make their forests sustainable from a genuine expert.
We were expecting perhaps three trees at most. But 26. Now that is abundance indeed. A wealth of timber and a guarantee of many evenings sitting in front of a cozy log fire.
Just in case you think these trees are small, the photo above shows my daughter standing in front of a beech tree and gives you an idea of just how tall these trees are. This timber is an unplanned bonus for having the courage to create my Ideal Life.
Do you have an Abundance Story to share with me and everyone who so faithfully reads this blog? What riches are coming your way as a result of Creating your Ideal Life?
