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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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