Today the boys and I dropped Leah off at the Above Rubies Reatreat for the weekend. Its chilly out tonight, we sit here by the warmth of nice hickory fire listening to some Johnny Cash. We read a few chapters in On The Shores of Silver Lake after we got some wood carried […]
“That’s such a small community that there’s nothing to do but visit friends and eat and sing and talk all night. It was a wonderful time….”
These comments by Kelly about life in the Bush are very true.
I’ve lived in farm country my whole life, but my first experience with true community was […]
Yup, I hear them. Not all the time, thankfully, but when I do… I hear them loud and clear. They come from the North, calling, begging and pleading with me to come back home. Never know what might set them off. Sometimes it happens after reading some Robert Service. Sometimes […]
One of my most prized possesions is the 1599 Geneva Bible that my wife gave me on our wedding day. This is a hard cover bible that is a photocopy of the original one. This is the bible that the Pilgrims brought here in 1620, the one that’s margin notes so angered King […]
I wrote a while back about starting a family reading time at our place. If you haven’t made this a new tradition at your homestead yet, I highly recomend starting soon. It has become one of everybodies favorite times of the day. We have been working our way throught the Little House […]
We are busy up on the hill canning and splitting wood. Our computer mouse was broken for a few days, just at the time that I had time to blog. The workload is pretty big right now, so if you have emailed us and we haven’t got back to you…..thats why.
Caleb […]
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