Blog History:

 20+ years ago we started this blog to keep family and friends informed of our lives. We moved from big city life to a remote area of Colorado and basically went for a much simpler lifestyle. We were self reliant and heated with a wood stove. We dealt with the average 264" of snow each year and grew our own vegetables in our garden. We learned much about the simpler lifestyle. 

Then Mother Earth News ask me to write blogs for them to post on their web page. I did that for over 10 years and developed many more followers on this blog site. All along the way I posted things that I learned about the 'going back to the earth' lifestyle. Then unfortunately we found we had along the way become much older and I developed a prostrate problem. When you wake up at night and can't pee and the trip to the emergency room is one hour and a half away it is time to move closer to medical facilities. Not to mention in the winter when the road is drifted in it is even worse.

Our daughter and son in law had just moved to North Carolina and were selling their vacation cabin so we bought it and now are no longer living the back to earth and remote lifestyle. It had to happen one day but it was a surprise when it happened so fast. Just two weeks before we moved here I was hospitalized with sepsis and now am dealing with what is known as post sepsis syndrome. It is not a pleasant thing to deal with but at least we are close to medical facilities. 

Now our nearest neighbor is a stone throw away we are still self reliant and brought much of the old lifestyle with us inasmuch as we heat for the most part in this more temperate climate with a wood stove and still cut and split our firewood.  

So as we have grown in our back to the earth lifestyle the blog has grown as well. I still miss the back to earth lifestyle and am surprised with world events as they are that more people are not embracing that lifestyle. Our home in the mountains of Colorado is currently up for sale https://www.zillow.com/homes/2009-Strauss-Dr-Fort-Garland,-CO-81133_rb/194161221_zpid/ and it has drawn a lot of attention. Some younger person will purchase it I am sure and will have an extremely rewarding lifestyle on our 11 acres. It was sadly just time for us to move on.