Steps to a More Sustainable/Simplified Life – Defining your Vision
Step Two - Defining Your Vision... If you were to visit Timber Butte Ranch you may notice a sign hung high under the crown of the barn. The sign hangs [...]
Steps to a More Sustainable/Simplified life – Answering the question
Step one - Asking the question “What is it you want?” – More than a question, but a prayer Tri & Nancy contemplating the question in 1971 It [...]
Steps To a More sustainable/Simplified Life – A series
Introduction – A choice for a road less traveled Simplicity is a dream worthy of pursuit, but one difficult to achieve in a world rapidly moving towards [...]
Nancy’s Barn-wood China Hutch
It wasn’t too long ago that our good friend and neighbor, Jeff Biggers, gave me a call. Jeff has an excavating business as well as being a cattle rancher and [...]
Harnessing the Sun in Idaho – Easier Said Than Done
Trying to incorporate the best of the past with the best of the future in our efforts to live a more sustainable life here on Timber Butte turned out to [...]
Sustainability and simplicity – Still worthy goals
Is the world getting crazier, more complex, politically outrageous and therefore less sustainable for all life? Are we living like frogs in a kettle, adapting day by day, oblivious to [...]
Merry Christmas from Timber Butte – Past & Present
Christmas 1980 Nancy, Tri, Kate and Brook with Pet - a favorite pony Reminiscing of Christmas’s past yet relishing in Christmas’s present. Still finding a pony around the [...]
The Life and Times of Jacob – A story of destiny
When people meet Jacob for the first time they often become confused. Some think he’s a goat because he has hair instead of wool while others wonder how he could [...]
Changing of the Season in a changing world
We woke to a fresh skiff of snow on the slopes of Timber Butte this morning. The air had a brisk bite and the animal’s water, a thin skim of [...]
Welcoming the Newcomer – A lesson from the barnyard
Kit is the newest member of the Timber Butte Homestead community. She is a 12 year old mare; a gift from our friends Michelle and Franck. When Michelle first made [...]
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