The current buzz-word for this practice is Urban Homesteading, but "urban" doesn't quite describe us. Our little place isn't within the city limits of any town (and if it were, even Idaho's capital city barely qualifies as "urban")... Perhaps in our case we should call it "backyard homesteading," or just plain "turning-a-regular-home-into-a-mini-farm." Whatever you choose … Continue reading Our Little Patch of Plantation
Tag: Camping & Fishing
Budget Limbo: How LOW can we go?
Yesterday we made the six-hour drive back home from my parents' house, and we hope that Grandy and Boboo are recovering from the chaos of their week-long house-full of US! The kids immensely enjoyed their week, though of course it went by too quickly for them---sleeping in a tent in the backyard, roasting marshmallows for … Continue reading Budget Limbo: How LOW can we go?
His Worst Week, His Best Week. Same Week.
Life has its ups and downs---true for all of us. But magnify those altitude-adjustments by whatever mysterious hormonal algorithm determines teenage moods, and we're talking about emotional topography to rival Idaho's Sawtooth mountains. Having said that, though, teenagers' experience of life isn't any less real for the fact that they're hormonal or young. And sometimes … Continue reading His Worst Week, His Best Week. Same Week.
Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
My "Radio Silence" over the last week is (I'm happy to say) the result of having been quite thoroughly engrossed in the activities of a first-week-of-summer-holidays with the kids... I started to write a few times, but never got as far as hitting "Publish," so here it is, all at once...Sat, June 2: Summer Holidays, … Continue reading Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Super-Powers
The Controversy of Kid-Calendars
The other day a blogging-friend (Judy, over at Connecting Dots...to God) posed a question which is plaguing a whole generation of parents. The dilemma? Kid-calendars! Many kids today have such busy schedules that a person might be forgiven for mistaking a glimpse of their calendars for schedules of heads of state. Even parents who remember … Continue reading The Controversy of Kid-Calendars
Synchronicity or Swim
I wrote the other day that I "don't believe in coincidence"... but perhaps it's more accurate to say that I think coincidence is usually the wrong word. Synchronicity is the word I almost always apply to those situations when "coincidence" seems meaningful. Which is almost always. I like how my Sponsor frames it: "Coincidence is … Continue reading Synchronicity or Swim
The Dying(?) Art of Knowing Your Neighbors
A fellow blogger has recently been bemoaning the hassles of moving, and I couldn't be more in sympathy! It doesn't help that I've had to move five times in the last four years, but I never liked moving to begin with. When my first husband and I bought a house, I swore I was going … Continue reading The Dying(?) Art of Knowing Your Neighbors
Kana's Chronicles 