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 [...]
Entry #53 – Vineyard College of Mission @ Timber Butte
Students built 300 feet of fence in two hours A sustainable life is purpose driven The decisions a person makes about the direction of their life [...]






