Entries Tagged as ‘green living’

May 18, 2009

Birthday parties and the beach equate to exhausted parents.

Friday night, we had a little birthday dinner for my Dad who turns 50 today.  Happy Birthday again!  It was a good dinner, but went by way too quick as always.
Saturday morning we hit the beach for a few hours with the the boys and a friend of ours from out of town that spent [...]

April 2, 2009

List of Lifechanges Worth Thinking About

Off the top of my head, I made a quick list of things that I would like to consider changing in the near future.  I’m sure there are more that will surface the more I think about it.  It’s good to start slow, but some of these can be very easily migrated into everyday life.

Stop [...]

April 2, 2009

Daydreaming of a Homestead

Excuse me while I daydream…
I love the idea of having a homestead.  A home with a bit of land.  Not too much, an acre or two, plenty of room to do whatever I want to do in terms of sustainable living and DIY projects.  It wouldn’t have to be a big house or anything.  Three [...]

December 5, 2008

More on downsizing and housing

I’m still contemplating all of the possibilities for housing.  We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to rent for a while after moving over here from Mississippi, so we want to make sure we do, and get, exactly what we want out of our next house.  We want our next house to be the house we [...]