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Summer projects abound, and so do the mosquitos.

This summer we have a lot of projects planned that are are starting to kick off. At the…um..request(read: demand) of the county Building and Health Department we are replacing our composting toilet with a full septic system and our beloved hand dug well with a proper drilled well. In order to pull this off we are improving our trail so that we can get a well truck (well trucks are huge) and…

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We are alive

We are alive, though we’ve been silent for nearly a year. It’s been a long and challenging year with many ups, downs, arounds and throughs.

In the next few weeks, Marci and I will be getting back into the blogging mood.

Hurray.

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We are Land Barons: $12,000 out the door.

In early May Marci, Abel and I fled the still snow Upper Peninsula to head to Kalamazoo, MI…

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Goofing off in the woods

We’ve had a busy spring and have been remiss in posting. Just so you know we are still alive, I give you this:

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I never meant to homestead

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau

I wouldn’t call what…

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