Stupid technology

I have so much to say these days, but my laptop has been standing in the way of my blogging progress. It’s also been hampering a lot of work I need to do with my laptop. It’s just not that easy to keep Mackenzie out of trouble in my office, and I can...

A few water saving tips we recently implemented

Well, everyone is in full savings mode with the price of gas going through the roof and we’re not much exception. We have cut back our spending in many areas and are using meal planning as one way to help us cut costs, but we’re doing other things as well....

A lesson with rocks

I received an email the other day which shared a story used by Dr. Stephen Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) in his seminars. I found the message so important that I thought I would kick off my contributions again with it:I attended a seminar once...

One year later…

Well, it’s hard to believe it but we have had our farmhouse now for nearly a year. We wrote on August 17th, 2006, that we were going to closing…and although everything wasn’t final until a few months later, we started cleaning out the house that same...

No coloring books

While my mom was here visiting us over the holidays, we spent a lot of time at the farm looking at things and talking about options and so on. There were things that she came up with that were so simple, like painting a piece of furniture which is nice but not exactly...