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A New Year on the Homestead, Celebrating Progress

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A New Year on the Homestead.

It’s a New Year! I always seem to take the whole month of January to contemplate and make new goals. There really is no rush. It can take time to get the vision for a new year. Daniel and I have a motto this year “celebrating progress”. We feel that it’s way too easy to think you can celebrate only when you’ve arrived to your destination. But it’s important to live in the now, and celebrate as you make steps of progress towards your goals.

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 Let’s back up a year, January 2014, the big move to our new home in town. We had been living off-grid for the last five years. Some of the best memories were made there, and they are truly priceless.  
 
  We showed up on that land with so many hopes and desires. It was so wonderful to raise our own meat, vegetables, and dairy products. We built so much from scratch, with just raw resources on the land. After living there we felt like we had this amazing test run, on living the homestead life. 

 There were lots of little things adding up to our desire to move on, one of the biggest was our land was so heavily treed and we really wanted some good grazing land to raise animals. There were a lot of different plans going on in our heads, some better than others. We finally decided on moving to town, with the plan to save our money and invest in a home we could rent out for income one day.

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Do we have plans to own more land? Oh yeah, big plans. However, we will be living here fully and in the moment. 
 It’s a time of rest for our family; we worked really hard the last five years. Due to not having any good power source those five years, except the occasional use of the generator, it’s high time for some editing projects, and more filming. We had planned on doing much more of that in 2014, but alas, we had our basement flood not long after moving in. Not to mention a computer crash from which we are hoping that we’ve not lost footage and photos for our future projects. On a good note, we did get a lot done on our new little homestead. And best of all, we have a new addition to the family; I call him my little man.
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 To all of you who have asked to see more of the homesteading life in town, I’m working on it. 🙂  Food is a huge part of it all, and what I want to post on more often. I thought I would have gotten a lot done by now, but I tell you just living and doing it with a baby in my arms, well it’s hard to capture it all.
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Homesteading on our little plot of land.
                                         Wishing you all a blessed New Year, here’s to 2015!

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