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The Small Pleasures and Infinite Miracles of (Modern Day) Country Living
Living off the electricity grid gives you get a unique perspective on things. Energy. Independence. Luxuries. Miracles. Even after 17 years of living this way I find I’m still amazed at the wonder of...
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The Myth of Relaxation When Homesteading
I think there is a myth out there among people who live in urban areas and work in jobs that they aren’t overly enthused about. The myth involves the glamour and romance of a move to a rural homestead....
View ArticleOff-Grid: So Awesome! And So Much Work!
I was reading The Toronto Star recently and was excited to see a documentary by Jonathan Taggart called “Life Off Grid” and then I became even more excited when I realized that we are in it! … well...
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Installed a New Clothes Dryer!
(Cam is busy 24/7 these days getting everything planted for our CSA but luckily he wrote this post a few weeks ago.) Yup, we installed a new clothes dryer! Nothing to it. Pick up the phone. Have the...
View ArticleIf I’m Livin’ The Dream, Why Does It Feel Like a Nightmare?
The other day Michelle told me over breakfast about a Facebook post she’d seen. It was one of those canned generic things that people like to repost. It was a photo of a cabin in the woods. I...
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Gas Tube Arrestors, Busted Wind Turbines and Spiders from Mars
I’m maturing as a person. Oh, I still have my fits and tantrums, but I’m getting much better. As one approaches their 60s perhaps this resignation to certain outcomes becomes easier. Several weeks ago...
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The Feng Shui of My Wind Turbine
Remember that scene in the first Star Wars where the Death Star blows up that planet and Obi-Wan Kenobi says, “There’s been a disturbance in the force”? That’s been the theme of my life for the last...
View ArticleMommy’s Alright, Daddy’s Alright, They Just Seem a Little Weird
When you’re a parent there comes a time when you have to look back and think about your parenting choices and their impacts on your kids. And how did they perceive you as a parent? The song lyric from...
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The Fabulous, Actual and “For Real” Off The Grid Weekend at Sunflower Farm
So, I’ve noticed a term that’s becoming really, really over used in our world today, and that’s “off the grid.” I hear it in movies and on TV and read it everywhere. Come on, enough! I suppose it’s a...
View ArticleThe Homesteading Retreat Weekend
(or more specifically the “Dispelling the myths and showing the realities of the homesteading, independent, sustainable, independent ‘life in the country’ dream” totally awesome weekend!) Michelle and...
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