Posts tagged ‘simple life’

I Deleted My Facebook Profile But We Still Have a Fan Page

By Mr. Simpleton, 29 July, 2010, 5 Comments

I quit FacebookI just deleted my Facebook profile because it was complicating my life. I’m all about technology, but we are also interested in simplifying our lives, whether that be through technology or the lack thereof. We try out different things and see if it makes our lives more simple or more complicated. For instance, pioneers didn’t have chain saws, but there is no way in hell I’d live without mine. I also make a living by telecommuting over the Internet, so our high-speed DSL connection is an absolute must-have. But Facebook?

So Much To Do… At least we won’t be bored!

By Mr. Simpleton, 7 April, 2010, 3 Comments

Creative Commons Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flik/2533996623/I know we owe you all some good video of this place, and I’d like to talk about all kinds of goodies, like discovering a new spring on the property and how to show a tom turkey who’s boss. But I have to get started at my full time job in 20 minutes and am a bit flustered by all of the stuff I have to fit into my upcoming weekend. The blog is just having to take a backseat for a couple of weeks. Here’s an example of my to-do list items: Fix holes in outbuilding #2, paint all outbuildings, clean out barn and get rid of the junk, find dental records from Denver and make appointment to get crowns, find health records from family doctor and find a new family doctor, open a bank account in town and begin the process of transferring all direct debits and deposits to new account before shutting down old account, update driver’s license and get new plates, build a fence around the yard for the dogs, buy more chicken feed, change water in watering buckets, scrape poo from under roosts, call fire department about burning the giant pile of wood (or haul it off), call a carpenter about rotting wood on porch siding, under windows and under soffits, call the raw milk guy Mr. Yoder told us about, buy printer ink and paper, install scanner drivers on work computer, fix the slacking piece of barb wire on the side pasture fence, read up on incubating turkey eggs, incubate turkey eggs, find Missy a good used car, replace all of the ancient locks on house doors, find a used couch for the front room, prune the apple trees and grape vines before they bud (if it isn’t too late), build book shelves for my office, build foot bridge across spring branch, paint my office, clean off and paint the two old tables in the barn so they can be brought into the house… And edit the video footage we took so that can go up on our YouTube channel and the blog, write a post about what I learned reading back to the land memoirs…. and about a thousand other things.

On Not Being a Luddite

By Mr. Simpleton, 5 May, 2009, No Comment

For those of you who don’t know what Luddite means, it is used to describe people who reject progress. More specifically, it refers to the British Luddites, textile workers of the early nineteenth century who protested Industrial Revolution “progress” by destroying the mechanized looms that threatened to put them out of work.