Spring migration underway

We have gotten some reports of late from friends who have been checking this blog for signs of life, and have come away disappointed after discovering our lengthy winter hibernation away from blogging. Well, faithful followers, here we are, emerging from our winter cave-abode in Philadelphia, stretching in the spring air, and setting our tires west once again for Missouri!

 It has been a long, weary winter in the big city in many ways, as Mike and I have been working (renovating, painting, constructing) almost non-stop to save money for the coming season on our land. But we will need every bit of it, for as our friend Glinda recently wrote to me, "this will be a marker year for you on the land, for sure!" and I believe she is right. Our list of projects to tackle in 2013 is long, not the least of which is cutting and erecting our house's main timberframe, the skeleton for all that is to come, and capping it with a roof. In a few days we will be cracking open our storage shed, setting up our (reinforced) tent, cooking all of our meals in our yet-to-be-constructed outdoor kitchen, participating in weekly rotating work parties in our community, planting a very modest survival garden, and battling the ticks, mice, chiggers and the rest of the usual gang out on our land! I can hardly wait!

So there are lots of posts to come for sure, but in the meantime, let me leave you with the vision that keeps us going in this crazy endeavor, our plan for Giving Tree Homestead...