The last seven years of my life have been punctuated with unexpected adventures. The farm The donkeys! Almost buying a ton of farmland and then not
Can you guys believe that I bought this place six years ago? That’s insane. When I started blogging (and back then blogging wasn’t even really
Three years ago I had a great idea. An idea that was mostly driven by my desire to have one bathroom in this house that
When I sat down to reflect on 2017 I expected to be a little disappointed with my progress around the farm, mostly because I spent
Up here in Michigan we had beautiful fall weather for about two weeks and then mother nature smirked and drop-kicked us right into winter, which
So many weird and wonderful (and kind of unexpected) things have happened to me in the last year, not the least of which is that
Every spring as I’m starting work in the vegetable garden– hours upon hours spent planting seeds, weeding, building garden boxes, mulching, composting, transplanting, watering, and
Every year I go into spring with a ton of energy and a ton of projects, and I’m always convinced that energy and motivation will
If there’s an unsung hero in the epic adventure of buying and fixing up this little farm, it has to be this woman: That’s my
I’m currently trying to dig myself out from under the overwhelming amount of day-job and farm-related work that March continued to pile on–relentlessly and with
It feels like ages ago that my biggest concern around the farm was cutting and installing the kitchen counters. Then the big windstorm hit, which
Let’s start this post off by talking about personal strengths. Mine fall along the lines of 1.) tearing apart a house I’m living in, 2.)
After two incredibly exhausting weekends installing the new kitchen counters, and the subsequent recovery from that adventure, I finally had to pick myself up off
Most of the time when I’m building things around the farm it’s just me, my tools, some loud music (and, if we’re being honest, also
If there is one point in time that sets the tone for the year to come, it’s probably this one… The one hour a year I
I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.
Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.
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