by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 18, 2011 | Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Rural Home Office, Rural Technology
Running a web-based business that serves other web-based businesses from a rural home can be a fairly challenging experience. But if making a living on your homestead is your dream, you have to find a way to make it work. Our Internet Service Story We live in a...
by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 8, 2011 | Decor, From City to Country, Storage
Decorating a log cabin, particularly an antique log cabin, is both a joy and a challenge. Joyful because there’s just something about preserving the past and the countless hours of handwork required to construct the building in the first place, and a challenge...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 19, 2011 | Fear, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Mindset, Uncategorized
Homesteading, even the modern kind, is ripe with opportunities for fear to rise up and cripple us from living our dream. In this post, we’ll talk about where that fear comes from and how you can embrace it to finally get your dreams of a more resilient life, in...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 15, 2011 | Lessons, Wildlife
Bears, cougars and other large mammals are a fact of life on most rural properties in North America. In fact, just after Christmas, we found evidence of a cougar (mountain lion) attack on a deer not 200 feet from our back porch. And we’ve got a big, fat male...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 14, 2011 | Home Business from the Homestead, Homestead Planning, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Rural Home Office
Living in the country comes with rich lessons. Every day some situation comes up that tests your endurance, your skills, or your sanity. In almost two years on our rural 6 acres, we’ve had occasion to learn a lot of things. Some are funny (‘gifts’...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 12, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Lessons
My son and I have been watching the Little House on the Prairie series on DVD. If you’re not familiar with this icon of 1970s North American television, it’s the story of a pioneer family in Walnut Grove, a tiny town in Minnesota in the late 1800s. ...
