This is a blog about establishing a family homestead outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We started with a two story timber frame coach house and and later will build an attached 1909 Gustav Stickley designed main house. Thursday, June 25, 2009. The house is nowhere near complete but we figure that we have at least. 3-4 decades left to work on it, but at a slower pace. Watch for more updates in the near future now that there is more time to blog.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011. My first Back to Eden garden. Last spring I hauled home 6 dump truck loads of wood chips from the local stock yard. I piled them up after bringing them home and watched them steam on cool mornings. I mulched around fruit trees and berry bushes with them, but most of the pile remained unused. After watching the Back to Eden. It ended up being about one inch to two inches thick. The next step was to haul wood chips. I hauled 6 or 7 truck loads, leaving about .

Building a timberframe home from scratch. Using timber and stone from our farm, and living off the grid. Sunday, February 26, 2012. I am running for US Representative in the Fourth Congressional District of Kentucky. I am not a typical politician, but I know I can help our country.

God often provides blessings that come disguised as tragedies. This is one of them. EDIT - I sat down a few nights ago and figured out my actual costs, based on th.

Our Life at Pure Water Hollow Homestead. Winter Week of Feb 15 - 21, 2015. Every single day featured single digit temps or colder.

Timber Framing a North Idaho Cabin. A blow-by-blow account of building a small timber frame cabin in the North Idaho woods. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The woodstove and hearth are installed and working. This project is close to being finished! Here is a view of the Northwest corner of the cabin. Here you can see the loft.

The sunrise on the porch with my coffee was my only quiet time. A six year old has so many questions and so much energy that it can drain the life right out of my brain. The boys found many treasures. Rocks that look like rocks, cars, rockets, cats, fish, bowls and a triangle. Hauled the load up to my wood pile and thanked God and my friend for use of his dump trailer.

Just a little garden here and there. Farm life,family, gardening and laughter. August 14, 2015 by Sherry. Once a chicken keeper, always a chicken keeper. August 12, 2015 by Sherry. Once a chicken keeper, always a chicken keeper.

December 2, 2013 by thistledog. I used to fight the changes, the sliding of deadlines, the unfinished projects supplanted by another more urgent. November 26, 2013 by thistledog.