I’ve been living in this cabin for a month now and thought I’d share a few things about my experience so far. First of all, I love it. I do plan on buying a small house on 15 acres soon. And though I will welcome a warm shower in the evenings, a refrigerator, and a [...]
We left our chickens at the old place since the buyer wanted them and we figured we could always get more (and we will). But for right now we are learning that, in terms of scrap food disposal, fish are our new chickens… As you can see in the video, our little pond has an [...]
This is the first thing I do when I wake up every day. Although I’ll spend most of my weekdays inside working on a computer, getting out in the morning mist helps put me in the right mood for the day. After this I’ll feed the rabbits and dogs. By then Missy is up and [...]
This is just a little video clip I took of my lovely, beautiful, pregnant wife Missy. I’m really not one of those Star Wars geeks. I promise. I’m not sure what got into me, but I hope you enjoy it anyway…
Our Property is For Sale! We love this house and the land, and hate to move. But we have put a lot of thought into where we want to spend the rest of our lives (or at least the next few decades) and have decided to buy an even larger piece of land with friends. [...]
Yesterday I put in the corn and beans, added mulch, watered the garden, spread gravel in the drive, cleaned out the gutters, put up the hummingbird feeders, pulled weeds, thinned seedlings, etc…. so I decided to take today off, as recommended by at least one out of four major religions. Here are just a few [...]
You may recall last year I posted about tilling up a garden from soil that was red clay below grass that had probably not been tilled in over 50 years, if ever. In that post I talked about how difficult the soil was to work with a tiller, and that I ended up having to [...]
I have been wanting a spinning wheel for several years now, ever since I learned how to spin yarn on a drop spindle. I took one lesson here at the end of summer from a local spinner at her yarn shop, and I tried out a few wheels at the Sedalia Fiber Festival last year. [...]
I have to admit I was a little upset about all the work I put into the new site not getting the reception I’d hoped for. In the end, I’m sure it will all work out. But right now I just want to tell a little story about how my life is different now than [...]
Everett writes about voluntary simplicity. This blog catalogs his search for "the good life" as he tries to strike a balance between work and play, freedom and responsibility, simplicity and comfort.
