A Different Legacy

I've been thinking a lot about wood.  Heck, hardly a day goes by that I don't.  Anyway, as I'm thinning some trees today ar...

Lately, I've been checking out every possible library book about owner-built dwellings.  You know: log cabins, " pole-buildin...

Howdy friends! Here are two articles I just printed, and plan to read with the Mrs. in the next day or two: "Food Forest Garden...

  Here's a new recipe: I like to call it... "Frenetic Blogging Fricassee" 1 lb. of scattered thoughts 3 hours o...

A sister in the Lord ("Enola Gay" of the Paratus Familia blog, whom I've actually never met :-) writes today's post.  I pr...

(View from the top of The Homestead ) Yesterday, my dear bride and I celebrated our 19th year of marriage.  I don't have to tell...

I've been thinking a lot about my identity. By certain standards, I used to be a "somebody".  I was a long-time leader...

"If a community, or a section, or a race, or an age, is groaning under industrialism, and well aware that it is an evil dispensatio...

This evening, we were treated to quite a show after our evening walk, and the whole family clamored for a front-row seat.  This otherwise- ...

Big thanks go out to Dad & Mom for having us over last night for "hanga-burgers" ( what the Dear Wife used to call them as a c...