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Investigations into rural internet
One of the aspects of our due diligence investigation into our land was the availability of internet. Since I work in IT, and since an online presence is important to our various endeavours, getting a good and reliable internet connection was necessarily important to us. We had already pulled out of one block of land…
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Welcome to 2019: A year of extraordinary adventures and growth!
Hello and welcome back to our first blog of the year! Our household has been super busy this summer! How about yours? Did you do anything fun over Christmas and New Years? Have you added anything to your homesteads or have you done anything different in your life? We’d love to hear about it! Speaking…
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CARPE NOCTEM
Dear readers, While I have been dealing with a mighty cold, our dear Mad Scientist was recently hit by a loudly roaring stomach bug! He woke up sometime around 3 AM last night and just… well you know. It was everywhere. Much like when Stargazer or Honeybee get bugs the Mad Scientist gets walloped too. …
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New beginnings
Dear friends, Well, it has been a long time! And of course much has happened in the world outside, and in our little family too. When we last posted it was the depths of winter, and all felt dull and dreary, with sickness and stress… and now it is the first day of summer (as…
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Doctors, nurses, blood and a whole lot of chaos…
Hi Readers, Thank you all very much for your patience. The Mad Scientist last updated you about an acute health crisis that caused me to be away for awhile from the blog. I’m sorry if that inconvenienced anyone or caused any concern. As the Mad Scientist probably mentioned, I have an unusual health problem which…
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Two steps forward, one step back
Dear friends and readers, Please accept our apologies for this long break. While we have been doing our best to keep this blog updated, the complexities of life have threatened to overwhelm us. We’re surfacing for long enough to give this update. We’ve posted before about a few days of illness. What we didn’t say…
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Another unexpected event
Hi Everyone, So some of you who live in New Zealand may remember that there was a significant flooding event last winter in suburban Christchurch when a few of the rivers were overrun after a storm. Fortunately, our house itself did not have ingress of water, but our yard and side yards were flooded up…
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Delays
Hi Guys, Sorry for such a long break between posts. Sometimes real life can get in the way of being able to communicate clearly. Right now I’m going through a few things that are pretty challenging, and so you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t post right away. The Mad Scientist and I have…
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A “Grace-full” evening
The title of this post reflects when Starfish was known as Grace on this blog. My birthday fell this year on a Monday. Birthdays are the few days a year that we go out for dinner, so we decided to go a night early. This year I wanted to try a small Japanese Restaurant in…
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10 Subscriber Milestone!
Hi everyone, I thought I would share that we’ve reached 10 subscribers! Wow! I want to thank everyone who has followed our journey thus far and encourage you all that even though things haven’t quickly moved in the direction, we’d like, we’re still striving for our future goals. We haven’t given up our dream of…