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Post by Kristianna on Feb 17, 2005 12:43:55 GMT -5
I am not currently on a homestead, but do all the things that I can where we are. I garden and can. We just ordered our first chickens. They should be here in about a week. We are very excited! Anyway, I am the mother of 5 children and happily married to their father. I dream of the Alaska bush every day and I've got our homestead life all worked out (in my head, LOL!). I just wish DH would come on board. I am working on that, though, and in the meantime since I do all the financial stuff at our house I am paying off all of our debts, feverishly trying to learn new skills, paring down our possessions and keeping my eye out for tools that would be helpful to us on a homestead. We live about as far away from Alaska as you can get and still be in the US. I have poked around on these forums and just love this place already. Thank you Chuck and Jenny! K
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Post by Jenny on Feb 17, 2005 15:51:28 GMT -5
Hi Kristianna,
Welcome to the Alaska Homesteading forum! While reading your post, I began thinking about how the things you are doing to prepare for homesteading are some of the things we do all the time. We work to stay out of debt by planning our purchases very carefully. That includes the small ones like grocery items and such. Why spend an extra $10 if it's something we really don't NEED, or if it's something I can make by working just a little harder and drop the cost to $3?
Even though we are what you'd call "homesteaders", we're always trying to learn more things, be more efficiant and enjoy the blessings of this life. Other folks always have a way of doing something we hadn't thought of or that may help us. We hope that our experiences can do the same for others. It's also way to easy to collect too much stuff. We have to stop periodically and make sure we're staying on the right path to achieve our goals. Possessions can impair progress if you aren't careful. Chuck just posted a link to a site that is very helpful. I think it was a link from Scott's blog site, but not sure.
Anyway, hope you'll keep us updated on your new chickens and all that's going on down on your homestead.
Best wishes,
Jenny
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