Homesteader Life

Two links, one will make you laugh and the other will make you cry.
Auburn Avenue Cartoon
Church Flood Picture
Update…..With the addition of Valerie’s wit, the flood link will make you laugh too!

Here is a question. Can community exist without a local economy? I’m not sure that it can. I think that when local economies fall out of favor with the people, community falls too. Perhaps its a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” sort of thing. I guess it dose not really matter which […]

How highs the water Papa?
4 foot high and risin’
How highs the water Momma?
4 foot high and risin’

The cows in water up past her knees
The chickens is roostin’ in the willow trees
Its already over all the wheat and oats
4 foot high and risin’

I thought of this old Johnny Cash song today. […]

As I told you all before, this year we are trying a New Kind of Garden. Yesterday Little John and I started work on building it up. We used to have sheep in a pasture not far from the garden spot. I fed them round bales of hay there and they wasted quite a bit […]

Chad Degenhart asks some Questions on Church and Community. This is well worth your time to click and read. I have for some time been struggling with the way churches(reformed churches in particular) have separated themselves from a physical community. At our church were members drive in from every corner of two counties, I feel […]