Carbon Ash and the Ash of Emotion
Here, two years and two months past our fire, i am again sifting through the ashes. This round of sifting …
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Knowledge is Not the Same Thing as Experiene
I have been asked to write a scholarly journal article that combines my experience of being a fire disaster victim …
Linking Our Food and Our Space
We reached batch 21, jar 71 tonight in the canning of the 41st pound of cherries. Canning has overtaken everything …
Three Cheers for Pickled Beets
Tonight we had 100 percent success on our canned pickled beets. Every one of the jars sealed. It was a …
Forty Degrees Below Zero At My Desk
This past week has brought us record breaking heat throughout the west and in our part of Montana. Temperatures here …
A Moth’s Visit
I have been single-mindedly plowing through putting good finishes on all of our box store “exotic wood” and our flat …
U.S. Deceleration of Independence: “Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown”
It is uncommon for us to take time to read the actual text of the US Deceleration of Independence. In …
Unpacking Our New Life
When we picked the name of the website we intended for it to chronicle our rebuild from the wildfire that …
Jessye’s Table
We are unpacking and putting together things we bought a year and a half ago when we were rebuilding our …
Time Out
Time out. We all need to take time out but what that means seems to depend on your level of …
Building One Home 