Entry #59 – The chickens have finally come home to roost
One of my goals for this past winter has been to complete our new chicken coop before the end of March. Most commercial chicken growers here in Idaho hatch their first wave of [...]
Entry #58 – ‘Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without’
Last Sunday the Idaho Statesman printed a story by Chris Butler on their front page highlighting people who lived through the Great Depression. It was really an enlightening article that many even living here in [...]
Entry #57 – Sunday’s lesson – A horse in harness
Using Sunday to snake out firewood in 1975 Nancy & Hope riding Sunday when she was in her 30's Sunday's daughter Monday still going strong In the summer of 1972 [...]
Entry #56 – A Sustainable vision for a sustainable life
Tri & Nancy with old dog Blue - 1970 Tri & Nancy @ Timber Butte 2009 Nancy & Brook at the cookstove - 1980 Nancy & Brook [...]
Entry #55 – The Biblical mandate for Christian involvement in an unsustainable world in crisis
Nancy loving kids in Zambia, Africa What I am about to state seems indisputably clear to me as a Bible believing and Bible practicing Christian. After spending the better part of thirty years [...]
Entry #54 – How I learned to build Chicken Coops like Fort Knox
Kate on her horse Rebecca Today I have completed the fifth and final chicken coop of my lifelong chicken house building career. I’ve invested the better [...]







