Just a few cool ideas…

Posted on by April 4, 2011

Stuff I found all over and just liked…

Can’t sleep… waiting for all this bad weather we’re supposed to get and hasn’t come about.

Want to be at the farm. Just because. Want to hear it rain there, see the flash of lightening on our own land lighting up the acreage. Want to see where the water puddles and what happens with the wind whips the trees and slaps the house, trying to get in. Just want to be there.

Been thinking about the Moby and how we love her, but it’s time to move on. I think she was the last step in our life puzzle… the place that we really FINALLY got it about home and hearth and the contentment of life. She was the final exam for Windhaven. If we hadn’t have settled back here in Ohio, in this 30+ year old mobile home and learned that we COULD make a wonderful life of contentment, work, friends and learn the arts and crafts that would give us the knowledge and confidence to take on the farm, then we wouldn’t have been ready.

When I watch my wonderful daughters take on the farm without any hesitation at the HUGE amount of work to be done, eagerly working on the vision that they see so clearly as I do with the place, it just makes me feel like a kid again, excited for each day’s new progress, however small, towards the goal that is our little homestead.

When I talk with friends and they get a whiff of the dream as well and they brighten up and smile and want to help no matter what, I know that this little hobby farm is a delight to be shared with all. It’s not just OUR farm… it belongs to so many! When I see 200 and 250 and 300 people a day checking in to this silly little blog, I know that you are all excited to see the progress and to enjoy the ride. I know what it is like to sit back and revel in other people’s life journey… I have so many blogs that I read and give me inspiration to do what we are doing, finally! Instead of just wishing and dreaming about these things, we’re FINALLY doing it!

And it feels so wonderful!

I always admired those people that would say, “dash it all” and take huge leaps of faith, and do unusual or non-comforming things and follow their hearts and sell all their stuff and run off to a foriegn country or started some off the wall little business or just changed their whole lives one day, to follow their dreams.

And now, I am one of those people and it is so exciting… and I can’t hardly sleep and I just want it to be the morning so that I can get started on my day of normal routine, so that I can get back to that little three acres and live… breathe, create with my kids, and enjoy something we have wanted for so long…

I can’t wait to get some chickens.

hee hee hee….. really…. I can’t.

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Thank you…

Posted on by April 3, 2011


I have a couple of very heartfelt thank yous this weekend… What a wonderful delight to get home from a hard day of work and find a Amazon box waiting for us and this absolutely wonderful book, the Encyclopedia of Homesteading, waiting for us! Thank you SO MUCH Laura J., we really do appreciate it! A very delightful book! HUGE! I have to say we all tousled over it for two days, wanting to look at the thing with so much information packed in it! It’s huge! And so varied in it’s topics. I’m sure it’s going to be a very well referenced book in our library.

And of course, a HUGE thank you to my buddy Curtis… he worked SO hard to get that durn furnace running… but he got the water on and that was wonderful! And helped take out two truck loads of some of our bulkier furniture pieces! That was so helpful, and really makes the farm look a little more lived in.


But I must say, a super HUGE and very unexpected thank you to my Dad… he sent the girls and I a very lovely letter of encouragement and the funds to do a great deal of our fencing at the farm! He’s worried like we all are about keeping our little kitties and the dogs safe from the road and from getting lost in the country, all the while helping to make a safe haven for them to play and run off leash. You just don’t know how much worry that will take off our minds! Thanks Dad! (And Grandpa!)

You know, it’s so wonderful how everyone is really onboard with this little farm project and is encouraging and excited about how it’s going. My Facebook friends are always interested in new pictures and reports and of course, everyone here at the blog, just love the comments and emails… it really means a lot to us! I’m so thankful for all the wonderful people that we’ve met and encountered on this crazy ride and for all our friends and family as well that have been encouraging and helpful! We hope we’ll do you all proud! Thank you VERY MUCH!!!

Sherri, Jessy, Maggie and the livestock gang!!!

We’re staying home tomorrow because of the rain and storms predicted, and plan to go out on Tuesday and Wednesday for sure! Going to spend the day packing up some things and of course, keeping up on orders and client business. We miss the place, but it’s probably best… can’t do a whole lot in the house at the moment because of the cold, and can’t work the yard well in the rain! Boo hooooo!!!! But I hear by the week’s end we should be pushing the 60’s! Yeah! We can start painting soon!!!!! Yippeeeee!

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