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The High Price of Farming

Posted in culture, farm on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

There’s an old dilapidated farmhouse on 100 acres for sale in my township. It’s your typical corn/soybean rotation industrial monocrop, but such beautiful land. And the farmhouse – it’s in shambles, but all I can see is potential. I haven’t even seen the inside; I don’t need to. I’m sure it’s horrible and wonderful all [...]

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Community Living

Posted in culture, family life, farm, simplifying on June 11, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Moving to our ten acres in the country has fulfilled a years-long dream of mine: to small-scale farm with my family. We want a large garden, which is in the works; we want homesteady-type animals, hence the chickens; we want to produce as much of our own food as we can, hence all the seeds [...]

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Children’s Videos on YouTube

Posted in culture, media on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I know some of you have found good videos for your kids to watch on YouTube. What are your favorites? How do you choose? My priorities are for the videos to be educational in some way, and for the content to be slower (not flashing through 2 screens a second, like movie previews).

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American Idol Talk – Finally

Posted in american idol, culture on April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

We haven’t gotten FOX for at least two years, so I gave up on watching American Idol long ago. But I finally figured out that I can watch performances on their website. So I spent a little time watching the past few weeks’ performances.
All I can say is, Adam Lambert is fantastic. Seriously, wow. I [...]

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Do You Think In Blog?

Posted in culture, just for fun on February 24, 2009 | 16 Comments »

I sense that blogging has forever warped my ability to think un-blog. I can’t get an idea, good or bad, without also immediately thinking, “I should blog about that.” Or, “I have to think through that issue more so I have enough to blog about.” Or, “I probably shouldn’t blog about that, but I want [...]

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Okay. I Get It.

Posted in culture, general on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It took three years away from this area for me to realize that yes, indeed, there *is* a Michigan accent. Not just that, but a specific regional dialect in West Michigan.
I may even be ready to admit that I have a little bit of one.
I mean, I knew it before, but I always thought of [...]

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