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[Wendy <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

See you on facebook, Bev.  I guess it has been about 15 years.  Wow, hard to 
believe.  I'm not what you would call a homesteader by any stretch of the 
imagination.  I had plans to give it a shot, which is why I joined this list. 
 
Had a contract to purchace 156 acres in MO, but then hubby derailed our plans 
by 
cleaning out the bank accounts.  Hubby and I no longer live together, hehe.  
So, 
I'm here in PA now, on about 1/2 acre.  I garden, can, dry, but spend most of 
my 
time working at a power plant.  I just never left because I've grown very 
fond 
of all of you (yes, even the ones I argue with), love to learn and to hear 
all 
about  your homesteads.

Wendy




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From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>
To: Homestead List <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, December 8, 2010 8:22:26 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Checking out

Well, my friends, it is time for me to simplify my life and leave the 
homestead 
list for good. It is hard to believe now, considering the normality of 
silence, 
but it used to be a lively place that I could visit to find people who were 
willing to lay it all out there on any subject.  I credit this list for 
getting 
me interested in politics and in homesteading issues like NAIS, permaculture, 
and alternative energies.  I've been on the list for the better part of 15 
years, and in that time, you all have molded into the person I am today.  For 
the last 5 or more years, I've started probably more than a third of the 
conversations on this list, for better or worse, in trying to keep the spark 
alive and to continue my own learning and understanding.  Now, I am forced to 
look elsewhere for intellectual stimulation and debate on issues.  As an 
aside, 
I have to say that according to my own definition of homesteading, I am no 
longer a homesteader, just a poor person with a cabin in the boonies and a 
bunch 
of chickens.  I don't belong here anymore, and it seems hypocritical to call 
myself a homesteader and organic gardener/rancher when I have to take 
engineered 
biologic drugs to function.

Many of you are on Facebook, and I thoroughly enjoy following your life 
journeys 
there.  I hope that I might continue to be a part of your lives there.  If 
you 
aren't on Facebook, but you still want to keep in touch, you can always email 
me 
directly (erthnsky AT gmail.com),  but this is my last post to Homestead.

Peace, out..

Bev

-- EarthNSky Farm    34.498N    85.076W
SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do It!"&  "Go for It!")
                

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I thought as the end of the year approaches I would update everyone.  It
has been a very busy year as most of you know, very busy indeed.  The
first three months were spent going though stuff and searching the
Internet for a place in Missouri.  My wife was shoved into retirement by
he school district so she had that to deal with.

In early April we took a trip to Missouri where I have spent several
summers meeting people and getting to know the area.  We looked at
several places within our very narrow price range but came away
disappointed every time.  It was either junk or over priced.  Then when
we were getting ready to leave a place came available, a place I knew
about and had discussed before.  It was a little more than I wanted to
spend but it had almost everything else we wanted.  So we agreed to buy
it and set things in motion.  A week later he backed out.

So, back to the Internet searches and making plans to come back when
school was out to search some more.  While looking an interesting place
popped up in the listings.  It had been way out of my price range which
is why I had not noticed it before.  The owner is ill and wanted to
settle things so dropped the price by S40K.  I had some friends take a
look and their comment was "If you don't buy it we will!"  They sent
pictures and descriptions and we liked what we saw.  We made the
necessary dance moves and the place was on hold until I could come out
to see it.

I flew into Springfield in early May and drove down to see the place.
It was everything we wanted, location, house size, sewing room, shop,
etc.  The price was a little more than the place we almost bought but
the difference was less than what we would have had to spend to get that
one to where we wanted it.  I signed papers, give them money and
returned home to get ready for the move.

Here are pictures of the place:
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Ozark%20house/

The next month was busier than any before.  We had to put a house on the
market, I had to sort through storage and load stuff, the house had to
be packed and my wife had to finish out the year and do all the
retirement stuff.  By mid June the house sold for more than was owed, we
had everything packed, a friend flew out from Missouri and drove my
pickup with a trailer to the new place.  We loaded two U-Haul trucks and
my tandem trailer and headed east.  We closed on June 21 and moved in.

Here is the move:
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Ozark%20house/moving.html

In early August I flew back to California to bring back my little pickup
and a 20 KW back up generator a friend sold me.  It was a real bargain,
well worth hauling back.  I paid what a home center 7KW unit would have
cost.  So far I have not had a chance to get it hooked up.

It is 44 mostly wooded acres.  About 5 acres are cleared around the
house and a field between two creeks.  I have two seasonal streams that
flood and close the driveway.  There is a small year round spring.
There is the house, a fairly new double wide with an addition with a
basement under.  The garage is 24 by 40 with the back half a finished
space that is the sewing room.  The shop is 32 by 24 with a concrete
floor and a 32 by 16 wing.  A machinery shed is 34 by 16.  For a very
good price the previous owner sold me his compact tractor, a low hour 29
hp Case IH DX29 with a loader.  Several implements came with the tractor.

Since then I have mowed, disked, and planted the cleared space in Deer
feed plots.  I set up a temporary shop in the garage then built a
cabinet, shelves, spice racks, washing machine bases, work benches, shop
shelves.  I have wired motion detector lights to replace a dawn to dusk
light, wired the garage with a new 20 Amp circuit and new lights, put in
a propane line to the laundry room, cleaned out several loads of the
previous owners stuff, added a new 20 amp circuit to the shop, built and
insulated one wall of the shop, cut a space for the garden, cleaned up,
mowed too much grass, brush hogged places without trees, had a minor
battle with a neighbor,  watched while the place was surveyed at no cost
to me, watched as my south boundary moved south by 33 feet to cut a
neighbors newly constructed shed in half, and a bunch of other stuff in
between.

A very busy year.  You can look back on my journal:
July
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/July%2010/July.html

August
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/August%2010/August.html

September
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2010/September.html

October
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/October%2010/October.html

November
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/November%2010/November.html

And so far this month
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

--
Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html