There is a feeling that you get when you walk into a well kept yard. The lawn is neatly mowed, tools are put away, there are flower beds growing beautiful flowers and you don’t see any weeds. There is no trash, thorns, or weeds in the grass. You don’t even need to worry about stepping in dog or chicken poop! There is something really nice about having some tamed places! Also, there seems to be a natural, inborn drive for man to tame wild places.

This post is meant to be a snapshot, or update of how we are currently living. I will briefly describe some of the systems we’re using but I may do some more in-depth posts later. In my last post, we were preparing to move our trailer to a new spot. We’ve done a lot since then and did move. However, it was more of a process than I had hoped. First of all, remember the nice spot we picked out that I got up and cleared by hand? Well, we realized we still didn’t have phone service there, and what we discovered that there is a lot of Poison Ivy growing right next to it. In fact, our boys got into it while they were helping clear it. It’s been quite a hard learning process for those two because they seem to keep finding it, and yet, despite the pain it has caused them, they still aren’t very careful around it.