The beginnings of another blog
I am not much of a blogger but with the findings of the spell check that is on the toolbar of my browser, I am feeling that this might be a little easier. Too bad it wont correct my grammar too.
I figure that this blog may actually have a purpose. I am going to tell about our experiences trying to homestead. We have been trying to do small stuff for the past couple of years but until we bought the place we live at now, anything we did was mostly just for fun.
In 2003-2005 we knew we would like to homestead. What a fun idea. Watching homestead shows or videos, ah... we could do that.(little do we know, I am sure) The only problem was that we rented and had no money. My wife for some reason thought it would be great to buy Chics... So she bought a few with the kids... They lived for a couple month and then became chew toys for our dog. We tried again only smarter this time (or at least what we figured was smarter). After the months inside the house in a box I built a light weight easy to move chicken coop out of 3/4 PVC pipes and chicken wire. Worked pretty good and the Chickens live for a while until something managed to stretch open a hole in the side and have chicken al cart.
My sister-in-law had this great idea to move out to Tennessee... (what was she thinking???) We had been looking to move but hadn't had any opportunities. In my mind I had a line from Sacramento, CA to the White House and wanted to move some where above that line. Tennessee is not above that line. So we ended up moving to Tennessee. I praised God that we at least had the opportunity.
After seeing Tennessee in 2005 I was very excited about living her. In 2006 we bought a house on a rolling 10 treed acres with a good sized pond and several small structures. Not the best place to try and homestead but certainly a beautiful piece of land and a good place for us to start to learn.
So the idea's begin to form. I hope you enjoy this blog and reading about our endeavors to homesteading.
