You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Hey all, just a quick note today to let you know our family came down with some sort of yuck this week and we haven’t been up doing much other than staying hydrated and resting. We’re finally…

You don’t have to be the fastest, or the smartest, you just have to be determined. I am stubborn. When graduate school said they’d never had someone without an engineering degree get a master’s degree in engineering, I figured out a way to make it happen. (Big thanks to my study buddies from Germany.) When…

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” -Meister Eckhart I was reading a story recently about a photography class where the teacher divided the class into two groups. Group one was graded on how many photos they took. Group two only had to submit their one best photo…

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” ― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones​ Who do you want to become? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately as the years slip by faster and faster….

I didn’t forget you – honest! We’re just buried under a small mountain of produce. Rain moved in over the weekend, and with as dry as it has been, I knew we needed to gather a lot of the garden produce before it got damaged. For those not familiar with the phenomenon, big wet after…

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such…

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit No dragons here, but one does need to consider the odds of challenges that will likely come up. Our building and remodeling plans have hit one delay after another. I do think…

“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” – George Eliot We said goodbye to a dear little friend this week. Our favorite member of the duck patrol, Miss Blue, passed away in the coop overnight. Miss Blue was a special duck, very patient, with running commentary on everything…

“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.” – Allan Savory “If plan…

“The societal conditions that provided the soldiers for the American Army in WWII were unprecedented in history. It was a society that was as technologically adept as any in the world, but that had fallen on hard times so that there was a great need for work. Also, those hard times had hammered out some…