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Fun with Floor Plans

Now that we have our cabbage, the next step is to come up with a floor plan. After taking some measurements and downloading LayOut, I managed to come up with this:   As you can see, the main space is

Mindy July 31, 2015 Simple Living 1 Comment Read more

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

Since my last Walden Wednesday entry focused on a plant I definitely don’t want to see on our homestead site, this week it seems fair to write about one I want to encourage. As a little girl, I loved hunting for wild strawberries in

Mindy July 29, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 3 Comments Read more

Be It Ever So Humble

Be It Ever So Humble

There’s no place like home! We ordinarily like to post on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and I would usually have a post queued up and ready to go yesterday. However. We had been on pins and needles for the past

Drew July 28, 2015 Country Life No Comments Read more

Google Searches, Pre-Country and Post-Country

Searches in the city: Best pho for under $7 Seattle PD Twitter feed Where is Macklemore right now Best coffee in Seattle, really Why isn’t traffic moving Why isn’t traffic moving ever Will traffic ever move again   Searches in

Drew July 24, 2015 Country Life No Comments Read more

Trotting After Turkeys

Trotting After Turkeys

One thing that I always get a kick out of seeing are wild turkeys. I grew up in the western part of Washington, out on the peninsula and then over in Snohomish County for my later adolescence. The natural habitat

Drew July 22, 2015 Walden Wednesdays No Comments Read more

The Art of Downsizing

This weekend, we caravanned to Seattle along with my parents and my brother-in-law and a few of his kids to empty out our storage unit. We didn’t bring a lot with us when we moved, just what we could carry in

Mindy July 20, 2015 Simple Living 1 Comment Read more

The Purple Menace

Even though I grew up on the ranch, I never learned much about the plants and animals living here. One of my goals upon moving back was to remedy that. With this blog, I decided to start a Walden Wednesday

Mindy July 15, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 3 Comments Read more

Welcome to Good Life Jones

I never in a million years would have guessed that I’d be spending my summer building a homestead. A month ago, my wife and I lived in Seattle. We dreamed about someday moving to the country, but between the two

Drew July 13, 2015 Simple Living 8 Comments Read more

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