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 above all the other structures, [...]
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 would seem like answering the [...]
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 technology and social complexities of [...]
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 hay farmer. His family was [...]
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 be harder than expected. From [...]
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 the changes? Can we turn [...]
