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How We’re Moving Forward After A Year Of Setbacks: Our Goals for 2019

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce I’m going to come right out and say it: 2018 was pretty much the worst year...

Thoughts On the Seasons Of Life

Dreams & Reflections

I love seasonal living. And like so many others, fall is my absolute favourite time of year. The weather cools down and so does the laundry list of chores and projects and obligations as the general busy-ness and chaos and sweaty, sticky, uncomfortable heat of summer...

2018 Home & Garden Tour Part 2: Our ¼-Acre Rancher

Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

If you’ve been following us along for a while, you probably already know that we recently moved from our original house and homestead to our brand spankin’ new one! It’s super exciting for us because this is the first house we’ve actually...

2018 Home & Garden Tour Part 1: The OG

Dreams & Reflections

I love to create things. Like food. You may have noticed that by now. But I love to create other things as well. I’ve always loved to write; To craft stories with my words. And to take photos of beautiful things. Things that I create. Things that grow wild....