Oh my goodness, it feels like it's been so long! How are you doing up there? The house done yet? I've stopped in to upvote things now and then, but I haven't read anything on here at all on forever.
So much has shuffled around here lately. In anticipation of losing my job, I started a part time gig a couple days a week at a farm feeding out wagyu cattle. It keeps me really busy trying to fit family stuff in just a few mornings a week, so digital life is the first thing to get cut. I'm dang near to throwing my phone in the street most days and just going without the internet for the rest of my life. But I don't have enough books for that yet 😉
In the shuffle, we may be moving some time, so I've taken to collecting used up molasses tubs to start planting in. Until things settle, of course. We may be ruffling our feathers all for naught. That would be cool.
Throughout everything the last few months have been shown how amazing life can be with a real community around you. Like, real people, not just an internet community. It blows my mind sometimes how short digital community falls when compared to physical community. Live and learn, right?
There's so much going on always. I'm sure I've missed a ton, but I'm getting sleepy and I've got to get up in the morning to go help a friend on his land. There's a lot of that going on too. More later I guess!
House won't be done for another year, if the money holds out. But it slowly is coming along. The 77 year old carpenter only moves so fast for so long...
I do so envy you a physical community. I've often rued how distant the internet community is. Hadn't heard about the job situation. I did try to read your other site, but 1 more thing to go through defeated me. It's all I can do to keep up here. And I don't have a cell phone... :))
After all the work you did on the house, now you might have to leave? Is this because of the job situation? And your gardens! That's what would break my heart...
Good to hear from you and get a little caught up.