I moved my blog

and I’ve changed the link on the side bar.

Hope you drop by, girls. It’s kind of …. different! ….. but I feel like it’s the best way to go – I was trying too hard to fit in somewhere. Here I feel as if I can just be who I am, and explore what’s actually happening to us. Maybe it will cure my blog-block?!

Autumn Angst Hits Canada, Too

Truth be told, Jackie, I’m not blogging either. I mean, a bit, but I think I lost my groove.

Likewise, I’ve moved on from a lot of my original homesteading ideas. In the beginning, it was sheer necessity. Like in the pioneer days, we needed to garden and can and mend and raise our own meat to survive. Dave’s job has since come to pay much better–and take much, much more time.

Other things have changed us too. Home isn’t a haven to me, it’s my work. It’s a job that gives no vacations unless I take them elsewhere. It’s also a massive network of unending renovations. It’s no haven to Dave in that sense. We were able to acquire the sailboat, and that takes us away in the summer whenever we can manage it.

I don’t miss the garden. I only feel like I should.

I’m out in space-time these days, rediscovering my drive to write speculative fiction that really examines the world and the way we think. It’s a refuge and a place of freedom. To me, it’s also a link to the past–to the sweeping dreams of the first part of the 20th century, to minds like Heinlein and Asimov and the questions they demanded of society. From their own perspectives, they saw things that were wrong and absurd, and they used fantastical situations to question their cultural ethic.

But here in my corner of Earth, the first snow is falling–we expect ten centimeters and already have an inch. (That’s the luxury of Canada, mixing measurement systems so flippantly.) I have regrets outdoors. I have hope indoors. I have stories begging to be told. I have questions.

What course of action will have the most impact on the world around me for God? How do I live with myself if I let some things go? Will I regret what I do keep? There’s not enough time for all the joyful things God made in this life.

Y’know, Jackie, I’m trying to remember that all the fun comes later. We have heaven and a whole eternity full of wonderful things. Here and now is the work season. But sometimes I struggle with how wonderful life is and how little I seem to catch as it goes by.

Greetings!

Hi All!

Finally popping in to add my 2 cents worth.  Just by way of introduction, I’m Jane of this foursome from the Upper Midwest of the USA.  I’m a Christian and the happy rib to my wonderful husband of 15+ years, and doubly blessed mama to two wonderful daughters.  We have a small hobby farm with a good-size garden, where I am done canning for the season.  We also have 3 horses, 3 cats, 1 dog and and ever-changing number of chickens (we just sold our Angora goats).  We homeschool and LOVE IT!!!  

I look forward to meeting you all here at WordPress and hope to figure out how to post photos here soon. 

Blessings, Jane

A bit about the gals

Homesteading in England? Yes. Here’s a post that gives a good overview of Jackie’s life.

In the northern United States, Jane has her share of encounters with interesting animals.

The New Zealand winter is leaving frost on Rachel’s windows these days.

In Canada, Cat has collected a number of beekeeping anecdotes over the years.